I'm just here for the endless sea of capitalism stans screeching "it's been tried" like the entire western world hasn't put their boot on the neck of any alternative every time.

Reddit was leftist not long ago. Not really leftist, just a bit left leaning. In my communities that changed drastically from 2020 and on. When I stopped using it a couple of months ago, my favourite subs were already mainly right wing.

Same coin dude, how about be an independent thinker.

IIRC, leftists were some of the first people on Reddit to start exploring Lemmy as an option. I found out about Lemmygrad a few years before the APIcalypse, but there wasn't enough motive to compensate for the inconvenience before.

Anyway, gotta love a platform that hasn't been drowned in the tsunami of sewage that is 21st century imperialist ideology (yet).