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Political shift in the other site's userbase? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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After more than 1.5y I have been browsing the other site again, and I have noticed that most assholes have disappeared.

Take for example this section about recent developments in anti-trans bathroom bans in the UK, to which someone said:

As a queer trans woman, I'm pleasantly surprised by this comment section. Thank you to everyone who is an ally.

Well, I don't remember this being the case on the other site. I have seen a similar progressive user base manifest itself in other "thorny" threads as well.

I wonder what has actually happened since the Exodus. I swear I have seen more shills and trolls here, than I have seen in the few weeks I have been browsing the other site.

So I entertain different propositions. One is that a lot of bad faith actors have stopped being paid for it. Or they have naturally moved to Xitter as their natural habitat.

Some of my theories get weirder, like some of the worst people on the other site were so mad at spez that they were part of the Exodus and ended up here organically. Or that the Fediverse is in the eye of bad faith entities and some of the operations were moved onto Lemmy, possibly infiltrating the very same political spaces that are now targeted as "extremist".

What are your own pet theories about where the fuck the overwhelmingly transphobic portion of the other site did go?

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[-] Bongles@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

~(Not to target this at you, I see this a lot lately)~
Why are we doing this "the other site" bullshit? It's reddit, just say reddit, a ton of people left reddit to avoid having to censor themselves so much.

As for your question reddit has been heavily progressive for as long as i used it, but the user base was large enough to have pockets of other people, like some of the us republican subreddits. I don't know where you use to spend your time on reddit, but where i spent mine they were accepting of Trans people the whole time and random trolls would just be downvoted to the bottom of the comments.

The rest of this feels conspiratorial so I'm going to leave it alone.

this post was submitted on 21 May 2026

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