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Unfortunately it seems really common for any new social media platform to lean way too hard into wither the far left or right, instead of finding a middle ground where a wider range of political views can coexist.
But hey, if we had to pick one extreme, then far left is a lot better than the far right nazi apps that crop up a lot.
the middle is necessarily right wing
If the left is "seize the means of production, eat the rich"
and the right "free market, corporations are good, pull yourself up by your own bootstraps"
then the middle would be what? Everything stay the same? if that's your answer, then the fact that capital ownership is protected under every single system on earth would mean that the middle helps capitalism
if the middle is reformism, then it is an ideology that distracts the working class from actual class war and crates reforms that can be taken away any time at all if the economy is bad, which by now should be clear that that will happen again and again, no matter what we try.
Why do you think rightists never complain about the "political center", but communists like me always rant about how stupid the idea is? It's because a centrist is useful to the right wing, and disruptive to everyone else
The middle ground is an open dialogue where people can coexist with opposing views and debate. The fast that you took me as meaning that everyone needed to be some kind of die hard centrist instead of just listening to opposing worldviews for once in your life is a great example of the problem.