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I think it's just marketing and propaganda. The companies, corporations and political forces that want to drive the world wide internet conversations are spilling over and leaking into everything including Lemmy.
Lemmy.News has a whole group that is constantly pushing war rhetoric against Russia ... lots of other groups are either right leaning or drifting to far right sentiments.
It's the same thing that is happening in the real world. Everyone has an opinion and if we were all honest and showed it, the world overall is a fairly liberal, open and accepting civilization.
Unfortunately, the loudest voices are those with the most extreme views and more often than not, they have a lot of money and funding behind them because wealthy people are pushing an agenda.
It's not that the world has become worse, is that the worst of us have become the loudest voices while the majority of us choose not to say anything.
"Fuck Putin" is not a far right position, let's clear that up right now.