I was gonna go more with the top Lemmy instance being lemmy.ml, which has its default set to Local rather than All, so instead of getting a broad picture of the Fediverse you see a heavy dose of BoTh SiDeS sAmE propaganda, just before election season in several countries.

But that's also just one of several:-).

[–] Braindamagedeluxe@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ahhhh, I honestly just took the default in the voyager app and didn’t rlly question it at all. I also don’t quite understand how instances work yet (like I get the technical idea behind it but I rlly dont know how it works in practice). I guess I will figure it out. Also, always fun to scream at tankies CUZ THEY ARE THE WRONG KIND OF LEFTIE!

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

There are multiple communities dedicated to pointing out some of that bullshit, like !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works, and ofc that instance I mentioned features heavily in communities such as !fediverselore@lemmy.ca and !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com due to its heavy authoritarian stance that removes content that criticizes Russia, China, or North Korea, despite there being no written rule against such.

There most definitely are real and actual leftists here, like slrpnk.net and lemmy.dbzer0.com, but the drama that tankies cause is legendary. Which in turn causes a lot of people on Reddit to steer clear of Lemmy altogether, since the lead developers are tankies, hence authoritarianism is baked right into the code, the same as Reddit, combined with a smaller user base here.