There are probably fewer than 10% of leftists in the West overall, even fewer in America, and for anyone outside of the West being a "leftist" just means having a modicum of humanity and caring about justice. Any Anglo site will inevitably be filled with average Anglos, and the average Anglo man is, well, you know. Just be happy they're not a majority here, not yet at least. 🤷‍♂️

I've noticed a lot more right-wing "just asking questions!" type comments lately but chalk it up to there being an election this year and the right spreading their plague around social media.

I've seen more pedantic bad-faith comments recently. I don't know if there are more, or if I'm just more aware of them.

I came from reddit 2 or 3 years ago now and i think most others are the same. Idk about all of a sudden. Its had the same undertones for a while now if you ask me and i think it grows along with the more people that join. As for politics I got tired of that the year before the last election. I invested some time into filters with certain words. Some stuff still slips by, but i am fine with seeing a few things.

Personally I can't wait for more of that, the one thing this place lacks is the smaller unique communities that bring a lot of great obscure information to the table.

I haven’t seen a lemmy user ask if they were the asshole for having a boundary

Block posters, communities, and keywords. And if you want to combat the perceived Reddit content, be the change and post what you think would counter it.

I have come to expect politics with debates against propensities as they come up on these (or any) social platforms. Thats just how forums have always been since it was referred to as bulletin boards back in the 90s. Reddit didnt invent that. Thats just human behaviour where people bat these things around and see what they can get away with. and trolls exist everywhere.

The thing that would make a platform reddit-y flavoured would be if it sold out to a large corporation, replaced mods with bots and celebrate a bunch of wife beating/federation/minority hunting subs and banned you for not liking it. That flavour is so very specific to reddit it's considered a lesson in dark social experiments.

100% of the users here are reddit refugees. I don't know why anyone would assume the vibe of the platform to be any different. In many ways this place even manages to out-reddit reddit.

The redditification I see is where people spam 100s of the lowest quality posts across the entire site to push an agenda. Also the comments are all same because no one actually engages with the article and just post a reactionary comment to the headline. I dont know if its because the articles are so low quality there is nothing to engage with, no one cares enough to read the article or everyone is so ideologically aligned the response is the same.

Just use the block filter, after that ....

I came back here after a long time and i had the same feeling. I think has more to do with the level of the discussion at large nowadays, more than the platform itself.

People are people. My interactions on here have been largely the same as on Reddit, and on Reddit largely the same as on forums before that. Lemmy was and still is niche, so only a specific subset of people would've interacted here. That changes as more and more people arrive here.

There's a bunch of new accounts posting chatbot slop, a lot specifically on this comm. Luckily when you point them out the mods do see to it.

As for the comms themselves that are made for slop like "c/woahthatsheckingcrazydude", yeah you'll have to get used to filtering those

If I see anything resembling politics I block it, immediately.

I've been here for a few years. There are waves of them. If something bad's happened over there, or some federation post has gotten a lot of attention, and a bunch of users migrate, this place is more Reddit-like for a couple of weeks until they either get accustomed or go back.

I haven't noticed but I tend to stay in my subs.

About your facist comment.

Are you saying 1. Claiming a Muslim person can be bad is facist. Or 2. Are you saying being an Atheist is facist?

You can take the user out of reddit etc

I only noticed there being even more political posts than usual, but their topic has not really changed, there's just more of it.

And my axe!

Not recently or suddenly, no, but I also go out of my way to shovel that shit away from the "front page" in much the same way you'd feel about shovelling shitty slushy snow at the ass end of winter. It is inherently a Reddit knockoff populated mostly with people who either are politically opposed "enough" to Reddit to actually do something about it, people who got banned, or both. A large proportion of the activity here is bot posts, from Reddit. It follows that shit's going to be... reddit-y.

To address the political spam firehose, look into making adblocker filters based around the obvious keywords, I've been planning to do that for a while since Lemmy, rather conspicuously, only lets you block things in ways that suck. Worse than discord, over here.

The "car guys" thread where people are talking about "nice exhaust" and "connection to the vehicle" definitely gives off reddit vibes. Even Facebook vibes tbh.

About the fascism thing: That's how this place always was. It's particularly obvious on European instances (at least from the perspective of this 2023 Reddit refugee).