Hi! In thinking about how to help the fediverse grow, I wonder if there are more mainstream Lemmy instances?

I’ve pointed a couple folks to Lemmy.world and it’s uhhh, pretty hard Left for them (as one girl, who volunteered for the Democrats said “I just got yelled at because I can’t be Left wing unless I want to destroy capitalism? Which feels weird.”) We’re much farther Left than reddit which itself was definitely Left of centre…

I don’t know if decentralized open source social media actually attracts many mainstreamers but assuming we want to grow the fediverse, I’d like to have somewhere I can point people to without feeling very nervous for them.

Thanks!

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    55·
    16 hours ago

    The fediverse needs a non-political, non-US instance that blocks political communities from other servers. Otherwise people who don’t want politics have to spend time curating their experience and can never actually escape it, because some douche will start spouting “OMG LOOK AT THIS POLITICIAN!” in communities about superb owls or something.

    • Baron Von J@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      15 hours ago

      Can an instance block individual communities? I would think if users just don’t subscribe to the political and then set the feed view to subscribed that should sort it out for them.

      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        11 hours ago

        Yes. I don’t remember which instance did this but I remember I encountered it some time ago.