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Am I the only one who gets bunch of posts from leftist and even communist subs/circlejerks in their feed? It's kinda weird to see genzedong and similar popping up in hot/rising feed. This just hopefully some of the growing pains of a new platform.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I swapped instances a couple of times because of federation with political instances. Highly recommend it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love how that aspect works here. I'd like to see that really improve over time as people spread out.

[โ€“] normalmighty 1 points 1 year ago

It's actually my least favourite aspect. People are going to carve out their own little bubbles everywhere where only people with exactly the same political beliefs hang out, never getting exposed to any counter arguments and constantly oversimplifying offoposing worldviews as they drift further to extremes.

Other social media platforms have this happen a lot, but Lemmy really lets you choose to stick your head in the sand with very little effort.