

well alot of the appeal of sites like this is the decentralized nature which is popular among privacy/open source nerds. You know the linux user types. lemmy is supposed to just be open-source decentralized reddit derivative. Rather or not it’s pointless really depends on the instance (privacy/closed source concerns not withstanding). There’s also the flipside where ther’es people who are too fascist for reddit to stomach them. Historically though those people have mostly made thier own websites, like r/femaledatingadvice (though they weren’t techincally banned i think they left out of fear being banned though) and r/incel or just died/got absorbed into less extremist out. When you have a site who’s main purpose is to be a place for people who are dissatisifed with reddit for various reasons. It tends to be similiar to reddit. lemmygrad/hexbear isn’t evne that dissimiliar to socialist subreddits. Though with deprogram has done heavy damage to that ecosystem. I’m not sure what you are expecting it’s like expecting revolt userbase to be radically different from discord userbase. At the end of the day it’s an open source decentralized version of reddit it’s not going to be radically differetn from reddit.






It’s less about it being open source for the fascists imo it’s more that like, you can’t be kicked out of the fascist site for being too fascist.