I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course)

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I can't really think of a reason for that as Reddit is hated somewhat equally by "both" sides of the spectrum. It's just something I find interesting.

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I'm not surprised that people who reject a platform with centralized authority for shifting to "deliver value to shareholders" mode would be more leftist.

I was expecting more libertarians.

Libertarians can be both Left or Right, Libertarianism is just the opposite of Authoritarianism. Left/Right just indicates economic policy.

People often treat it as "Conservative that likes weed and doesn't want to be called one"

I agree (for the most part). I still don't see a lot of them around on either side. But you might be right in that I was expecting more right wing libertarians as well.

I consider myself left libertarian btw.

Honestly, it might offend "leftist" principles more, but it's an awful experience for anyone using it. I don't think even the hardest line Trump supporters are trying to use the official reddit app.