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!

  • NONE@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Lemmy.world is too left?. It always looked normal to me. Although, I do want the total annihilation of capitalism, so…

    Normally big instances are the most generalistic and less “politically biased”, but sometimes a more small and focused instance could be better for the things you want.

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      15 hours ago

      It’s… Fine for me, I’m learning to just eye roll and move on but it can sometimes be fairly u pleasant and aggressively Left. (I think I got called a fascist for pointing out problems with PR electoral systems with a “how dare you oppose a system that…”

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        14 hours ago

        Too bad that’s your experience. Yes it is true that some comrades can get “intense” at times. I think that, more than the ideas, it is how to express them that is at fault by their part.