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Engaging with very right wing ideas such as HBD is socially embarassing. The ick is a natural response to that.
If person X has many accounts and one of them happens to be on the motte then a subset of people would judge them. "What kind of person has a stormfront, 4chan, incels.is etc account." This is the main reason for lack of leftists.
Now the common argument is just don't tell your peers you have an account but unfortunately psychology doesn't work like that, people want to be liked for all they are and dislike keeping secrets.
So they must decide if they must bear the psychological burden of keeping a secret to keep browsing the motte.
This isn't really concious but I assume that is what practically happens.
This process bleeds leftist dry from a platform and without them the discourse becomes too one sided and of lower quality. So even more people leave till you end with a mostly center right website.
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