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Nope. It’s because it was originally made to be a echo chamber for Communists. The devs are open communist
They developed the software, they don't run all of lemmy. They run one singular instance.
It's open source, if you actually think this software pushes left echo chamber, you're a smooth brain.
Pretty sure lemmygrad originally was a dev run instance. I don’t know if it still is
...that's still just one instance.
And that's why I said originally
How do you reckon the design influences this? What do you think supposedly enabled that?
What specifically makes it a platform designed to be an echo chamber?
It was originally made because they couldn’t say some stuff on r/communism
https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/
This then later became lemmygrad. Lemmygrad is a echo chamber. That’s what I mean with that it was originally designed to be a echo chamber.
Then good thing when they developed the platform they didn't make it a legal requirement for you to make an account and browse only Lemmygrad.