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Lemmy’s core development team are communists, of a very bizarre and inconsistent type that is openly or semi-openly in favor of massive command-economy-capitalist countries like China and Russia even when they are engaged in imperialist conduct. They’re weird. Idk what’s up with it. A lot of the core historical instances still have that mindset and are sometimes so obnoxious about demanding that everyone else needs to also that they are banned from the more recent more mainstream-thinking instances.

Generalizations are tough but I think it’s safe to say that 90% of everyone else on Lemmy is some variety of vague-leftist roughly in the mold of Bernie Sanders, which depending on your personal Overton window you may define anywhere from “disgusting liberal who betrayed the movement by voting for Kamala Harris” to “Communist.”

Hope this helps

It's neither communist nor a site.

We're an anarcho-syndicalist community. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting. By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs.

Strange developers lying on GitHub distributing software is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical coding ceremony.

Mostly just liberal/social democrat with a sizeable and vocal minority of socialists and communists.

Generally, the American vision of "left", or European center and left.

Lemmy isn't a site at all. It's a piece of software.

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There's a pinned post on the first community that can answer your question

I think the reason you dont understand many comments in this thread is because you dont seem to know what a "communist" it. People are answering your question based on the official definition, but you are going by a gut feeling that probably springs form propaganda and biases in your community. I encourage you to read up on communism if you really want to know.
If youre just here to pick fights with no knowledge to back up your claims, youre on the right track.

Lemmy is a piece of software. Its two main developers are communists. The software runs on many different servers (instances) that are mostly not communist and the two developers do not enforce any political ideology on the use or users of Lemmy (and couldn't even if they wanted to, which they clearly don't). There are two or three instances that are communist.

That said, if you're from the USA I'd hazard a guess that the word 'commie' to you is probably a person slightly to the left of Bill Clinton. At the moment, the entirety of Lemmy does lean slightly left and is generally progressive which is a refreshing change to the constant brain numbing right wing shitholes most mainstream social media sites are.

I'd urge you to not go looking for a fight. Just ignore, block and move on. This isn't reddit.

There's a lot of state sponsored propaganda from right wing, authoritarian countries that pay lip-service to popular communist ideas to keep the dictator in power.

A lot of the noise comes from just a few of the users, so for the moment its easy enough to just block them all.

Niether.

Lemmy is the frontman for Mötorhead.

You'll need to be more specific I'm afraid. Lemmy isn't a single site, but rather a bunch of sites all talking to one another in the same "language".

Is your homeserver, lemm.ee communist? No clue. I do know lemmygrad.ml is. My homeserver, lemmy.sdf.org, leans from libertarian to liberal to marxist depending on the particular subject or user.

Each cat their own rat.

Yes in the sense that mostly the communists inhabit it. No in the sense that, because it is decentralised, no one can force you do to a particular thing if you host your own instance

No, Lemmy is the software. How can software be "communist"? How does it own the means of production" ? Seems an odd question.

You can have instances that are run by folks that have a communist bent (thank goodess for that) or instances run by all sorts of folks and instances federate and talk to each other (and can be blocked) but that's a separate thing.

Lemmy is a federated platform, not a single website, nor a single community.

Yeah, but only the good kind.

This is almost like asking if all social media sites are communist because reddit has a communism subreddit. (More accurate to say the question would be like asking if all phpbb are communist because theres a communist board or two out there, but idk if the general pop even knows what a php board is anymore)

Welcome comrade!

All websites are inherently communist and if that's disagreeable to you there's always mud to play in.

Lemmy isn't a site- it's a piece of software.

The software is developed by communists and there are communist sites running lemmy. However the guys developing the software's political opinions don't affect the work itself. It's open source also.