I joined Lemmy a few days ago and have been reading around. 90%+ of the content I see, even on non-politics related communities, is political in some way. I have no interest in that, so it’s tiring, especially when it’s inserted in the comments of completely unrelated posts.
Because Lemmy’s userbase was boosted by a lot of reddit banned people, and reddit bans people for political speech. I’d guess lemmys userbase doesnt represent a random sampling of the general population.
Is it really so many banned people? I thought most of us were here voluntarily due not liking reddit policies. I have my reddit account, I just don’t use it.
I’m in both camps. I made a suggestion that the world might be better off without Greg Abott, governor of Texas. That got me banned. I used an alt account for awhile until the API debacle and I haven’t been back since.
There was a huge influx of users when reddit broke third party apps, I have to imagine that was larger than reddit bans. But then not everybody stuck around so who knows.
It is mostly due to the API fiasco in 2023. The latest wave earlier this year barely pales in comparison.
From Fedecan
granted, it hasnt been measured that I can find.