My outsider impression is that this is just a long-standing hard-left tradition in general. Not really specific to anything on the Fediverse.
I remember going through the list of UK socialist and/or communist political parties. Lots of tiny, fragmented groups, many of which had split off from others over various disagreements.
The phenomenon is sometimes called the Naccism of Small Differences or the Law of Triviality. It’s appears in just about any group of people to some degree. It’s a wild and weird little bit of human behavior.
Two leftists with minute political differences calling each other fascists.
My outsider impression is that this is just a long-standing hard-left tradition in general. Not really specific to anything on the Fediverse.
I remember going through the list of UK socialist and/or communist political parties. Lots of tiny, fragmented groups, many of which had split off from others over various disagreements.
The phenomenon is sometimes called the Naccism of Small Differences or the Law of Triviality. It’s appears in just about any group of people to some degree. It’s a wild and weird little bit of human behavior.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS-0Az7dgRY
I knew what this was before even clicking on it. :-)