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Lemmy is a decentralized protocol not a centralized americanized political leaning social media.
Do you think that's relevant? I don't see anything about either reddit or lemmy that makes it harder for right-wingers to join. I can tell you that America does not have a monopoly on the alt-right (AfD, Brexit, etc)
I'm keen to learn more if you've seen evidence in this topic. I wouldn't know how to investigate, tbh.
If the platform owners are driving discussions by manipulating feeds (Facebook) or running bots to make the platform look popular (Reddit), the right-wing presence on those platforms might not be as real as we believe.
Well, looking at elections worldwide, the far-right isn't as small as any extremist party should be...