Anarchism

To do damage.

Look, yelling in the basement of your local bar late at night is all well and good but sometimes you gotta set up on the street corner and scream at the normies to get the message across.

Why does anyone go to a community they don't necessarily agree with? Either to start shit or to convert. If your goal is to get other people to see the world your way, or even just to have an argument with someone who doesn't agree with you, first you have to be where people don't agree with you. I think this is probably a far sight better than people living in echo chambers, personally.

Alternatively, most people pick the least friction option, it's only us weird, passionate people who go through the added inconvenience to be on a platform that more aligns with our ideals.

"Why do anarchists live under capitalism if they hate it so much?"

Bro, sometimes you don't have a choice. They might not know about Lemmy or other Reddit alternatives that aren't corporate owned piles of dogshit. For a while, there weren't any; that's why I was there for so long.

It's also hard to just up and leave a community. Even if it's in a bad neighborhood. Your friends are there. Unless they come with you, you're much more inclined to stay.

Hi! Recovering Reddit anarchist here! Although if I’m honest it probably wasn’t until after leaving reddit I really started to understand what anarchism meant, and more openly align with it.

Raddle is literally run by insane people who admit to using sockpuppets and have incoherent beliefs

If you want to be heard, wouldn't you go to the most crowded plaza instead of the mostly empty one with people who already agree with you?

Most people don’t know about lemmy. And as an anachist, the fact this place is dominated by authoritarian MLs is quite off-putting.

Also a lot of anarchists aren’t as terminally online as a lot of us here :).

A bunch of anarchists who do end up leaving Reddit use Raddle, a different alternative to Reddit. This is probably why there's so few of us on Lemmy.

As for why so many do stay on corporate social media like Reddit, it's a similar reason a bunch of socialist orgs organise on Facebook: that's where the people are.

Good question but I assume its becase thats where the people are and /or they are unaware of alter natives and/or theybdobt give a shit?

Same same with X and all things Meta for that matter

Sadly i think a lot of them are deluded into thinking they have to take care of the reddit community or "someone worse is going to take over". I don't quite get it myself but I know some of these mods were struggling a lot to get control of their subs (i.e be the top mod)

Town square vs a bush behind the abandoned lighthouse.

Lemmy doesn't have a large userbase. The few that moved I feel are dedicated here. Most people won't know what Lemmy is if you ask them or what federated social media is. Alternates aren't viable for most people.