Lemmy is all about community, most people here are from middle or lower class family and they don't like riches bcz they have seen exploitation by them(mostly by big tech company), that's why they oppose capitalism and hate capitalists but saying them communist(in the bad sense like the gov in russia and china) i think is wrong.
You can say us communist if you want to show the good things from communism ideology like caring about labor(all the hard working people) and stopping few people from gathering all the money and power(this is where russia and china failed).
Look, if i said about what was happening in my country during socialism, which we had before 89, I have got downvoted by butthurts that are ignoring history and facts. That regime lived of oppression of other people and anyone who defend it is communist scum. If i say I am againist any kind of racism, and that includes any color of skin, black, yellow, red, white, hell, even green, I am for them one that is racist, without any further evidence, because "racism against white people isnt possible, because it lack systematic oppression". Hell no, they are again some neo marxist scum and therefore included in first category. I get they are usually just entitled ignorant american brats, but it is, what it is.