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Lemmy is not much farther left than reddit is.
Also the younger generations who spend more time on these sites lean left to begin with. They aren't going to be repelled by people shitting on Biden.
Monthly active users are 35% lower than July last year when Reddit turned off the external API. Just 42,188 now. Since then there are 45% fewer servers online. Average comments per month are up, which means fewer and fewer people are posting more and more. This is the definition of an online circlejerk. I’m glad you like it this way but normal people do not, and these stats will only get worse in time.
MAUs are counted by commenters and posters. The stats could just as well show that there are fewer people engaging for the sake of engagement, which was a huge problem last summer.
I am a leftist who participated on Reddit for more than a decade without any issues, and I catch bans on Lemmy for not being "left" enough. The politics on Lemmy are so far outside anything resembling mainstream, you get bans for daring to quote Jacobin or the fucking internationale.
From where I am standing, as someone who has actually studied political science, Lemmy looks a lot more like right wing trolls pretending to be leftists