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As far as I know it was started by the original lemmy developers which made the software because they felt persecuted for their beliefs on normie social media. Lemmy just happened to be around when the reddit CEO decided to f up reddit so everyone started using it despite the creators not being well adjusted people.

Edit: just so I’m not misinforming here’s what they said themselves about the origin https://lemmy.ml/post/70319

I don’t get how extremist leftist content ends up attracting people who are against woke stuff in stardew really but over time I’ve gotten the vibe the ml and hexbear people are in general more combative and angry about things.

Make your own community on an instance that’s not full of assholes

If you’d like to try mbin https://fedia.io/ is a good instance. Run by Jerry from infosec.exchange.

Personally I support software diversity and Earnest seems like a nice person but Lemmy has a bigger development community and I wanted the mobile apps.

None I just look at new because there’s not enough content on Lemmy to filter it