https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostalgia_for_the_Polish_People's_Republic

If I ask a Pole who was in charge before 1989, they’ll say the Kremlin.

If you ask a lib who’s in charge of the economy, they’ll say the invisible hand of the market. Doesn’t mean it’s true.

Communities that go against hegemonic capitalist/imperialist discourse will always get marginalised. Not being able to take down those communities easily like on Reddit is a huge win by itself for Lemmy. The software offers a valuable savehaven for e.g ex r/chapotraphouse, r/genzedong etc.