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Is there a "normie" or more mainstream instance for Lemmy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 14 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 hours ago

Unless you’re willing to go with a very closed off instance you’re still going to be interacting with the broader fediverse which is very left.

I don’t think that’s really going to change unless there is another big migration and I don’t necessarily want it to. But I would like if Lemmings would be kinder to one another and realize that not having read 800 pages of leftist theory doesn’t mean you’re an evil imperialist. Everyone is on their own journey to understanding the world and I think a lot of people here are so judgmental that they would be fighting with their own past and future selves if they could meet them. It’s OK to disagree sometimes. Yes, even when people hold harmful views. We all do to some extent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Beehaw probably

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

Beehaw is definitely quite left but it’s more polite so maybe that would be better for normies that are willing to follow strict rules over there.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

My instance doesn't really take a political stance, you're welcome unless you're an extremist (left or right, doesn't really matter to me).

Edit: But I think you're not gonna get better content anywhere that's federated, after all, your instance doesn't matter that much if you're seeing the same content everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, I'm not sure what the solution is or if there even is one. To paraphrase Randal in Clerks "lemmy would be great if it weren't for all the lemmings."

(I think a lot of folks are great but that small, albeit very vocal group... Ugh.)

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