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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€“] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because Instagram censors, shadow-bans and algorithmically supresses pro-palestinian content. Since anti-imperialist leftist were the first to condem the genocide, they have been made invisible on the platform. Ultra-left are compatible leftist, who don't threaten the empire. That's why they are left over on the platform, even, if some of them now too state the obvious about the genocide.

OP is stuck with "Down with Gazan imperialism" leftcoms.

[โ€“] woodenghost@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

Wow, they really try the same playbook every time. Everyone who stands up to the empire is themselves imperialist, so why even support or do anything?