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Why is the herd mentality so common on Lemmy?
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this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2026
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The reason here seems to be that the left-right axis is a good-evil axis, so they're trying to find the furthest left position on the spectrum they can occupy. As a result, everyone has the exact same beliefs and holds them with a smug sense of either moral or intellectual superiority.
It isn't so much herd mentality as it is they've given themselves very little ideological wiggle-room to work with as a community.