They certainly adopt rhetoric from the left which helps them get elected, then enact exclusively right-wing policies when they actually have power, sure. Fascists usually use populist rhetoric to get into power but then they never do anything to actually reduce inequality (because that would be the opposite of fascism).

As in because the pendulum swings from the far left to the far right? Or were you just mistakenly conflating those two completely opposite political theories?

That's cool, you should specify from the onset that your experience comes from a place outside of the actual country where the "woke" culture war originated and is mainly happening, and you should still link stats to demonstrate that the majority of people there have a misunderstanding of what the word means like you claimed. Claims made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence, and most people in the country driving the "woke" culture war still know what the word means.

No it doesn't. It means the same thing to most people that it has always meant.

https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/americans-divided-whether-woke-compliment-or-insult

The right just has so much insane propaganda about it that you've been convinced most people fell for it, which they haven't.

If it's anything like Ohio in 2022, they just ignore the court order to redraw it and there's no recourse.

Chill out, I never said it did.

Relax

Unfortunately I still have to use Reddit for D&D stuff, otherwise I'd be able to switch more easily. Also the subreddits I used to be able to browse for hours just don't exist here so I can only basically get on Lemmy for maybe 5 minutes at a time before I'm bored and have to close it. Maybe it'll continue to grow and get better in the future; here's hoping.

I don't have anywhere close to enough time to actually be the person who starts and moderates communities. If enough people start them and start participating in them then I'll start participating again, but "be the change" only works when people have free time to do it. I would love for Lemmy to take off, don't get me wrong, but all I was saying is that it hasn't yet and the claim people try to make here that it's already good enough to replace Reddit is pure cope.

I didn't say you did? Weird response.

Lemmy doesn't have nearly enough people to be worth using as the only platform people are on unless you never engaged with any niche subreddits. I was pretty active on subs where only like 100 people participated, so finding things like that on Lemmy are impossible. Lemmy is only decent for tech people at this point, it needs to get a tremendous amount of extra people joining to be good enough for anyone else to drop Reddit entirely. And even then, lots of info exists on Reddit and nowhere else that still make it a useful tool for other purposes.

Sorry I just don't buy that a large portion of people are already using Lemmy and nothing else (you might be, idk) unless they only care about memes of beans and nothing else.