This is intentional. There’s a contingent of Lemmy power users who are actively sabotaging a push to make it more accessible. Every time this comes up, they openly admit their intentions are to keep it niche, and continue gatekeeping.

You can just scroll through the comments here, and see some examples.

There’s a lot of gatekeepers here who actively sabotage the project to keep it niche.

Along with people being unhappy with Meta, and the looming TikTok ban, Pixelfed just now released apps for it.

I think it’s supposed to be like old instagram.

Jesus. Just openly demanding an echo chamber.

You sure you’re a leftist? I see more leftism allowed to exist on Lemmy than other platforms, but the majority of it certainly leans neoliberal.

Try criticizing NATO or the Democrats in Lemmy communities. See how fast the powermods and groupthink kick in to put a stop to it.

But of course the rightwing stuff gets targeted, too. The mods here seem keen to mirror the narrow pro-neoliberal Reddit viewpoint of what is acceptable speech. Anything beyond that will result in a strike against the user or instance.

ETA: just got banned from another Lemmy.world community for pointing out the original NATO commanders were Nazis. There you have it.

Would you drive a Ford? Because you should read up on Henry Ford’s beliefs if so.

How about BMW? Wanna talk about their history? Actually, give me a car company you like, and we’ll just dig into that one.

I wouldn’t drive a Tesla because they’re shitty cars.