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Why is Instagram so full of leftcom slop? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 week ago by QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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I downloaded Instagram to talk with some of my foreign friends. I decided to peruse what sort of left-wing space it had, expecting the standard Reddit-esque reactionary anti-communism. Instead, I found a sea of ultra/leftcom nonsense: hundreds of posts and comments of phrase-mongering and dogmatic nonsense, not to mention gross misunderstandings of Marx, Lenin, and Mao, as well as either entirely ignoring or looking down on modern work such as that done by Chinese scholars.

Is there something specific about Instagram or its target user base that has led to fostering this community in ways other Western platforms have not? As it seems far more prevalent than on any other platform I've seen.

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[โ€“] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My condolences I had to close the app after a few posts as it was simply grating on a level most liberals even fail to achieve. I can only imagine the pain of having to deal with it in person where closing the app is simply not an option. It is however an interesting phenomena that they appear much more prevalent on Instagram than say Reddit that has a well earned reputation of being the go to social media of choice for smug pseudo intellectuals of which I feel they would fit in perfectly.

[โ€“] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

Be thankful. Where I am the majority of people are just different flavors of right-wing cranks, it's like watching a youtube comment section argue in real life.