Is there a "normie" or more mainstream instance for Lemmy?

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Why not just join non-political communities and focus on the content that they enjoy. If people are nervous about meeting assholes on the internet perhaps they should stick to cable tv or netflix.

murmelade

I got told to go back to reddit on my very first comment.

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Ouch.

Is your username a reference to this song by the way? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4LWIP7SAjY

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murmelade

Not really, 'murmel' means 'marmot' in Swedish but it's often taken already so I've just evolved it into a marmalade-pun

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I can’t be Left wing unless I want to destroy capitalism?

Yes. Yes indeed you can't. How to go about that is up for grabs but if you think that leftism is all about preserving the system that allows oligarchs to accumulate more capital and power, to allow a minority to exploit the majority, I don't know what to tell you.

...besides that you're probably American because only y'all are so damn confused about the whole topic.

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Fediverse is anticapitalism at its core, it's a way to escape ads and money influencing algorithims and what can be said. If you don't like power to the people, join truth.social or some other unfederated instance.

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Socdems are leftist, even if you might disagree with their whole non-revolutionary approach. Definitely more leftist than the billionaire-creating CCP which yes is in the G20. China is part of that club.

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Adam Smith, in modern terms, would be a social liberal. Probably some kind of ordoliberal. It's Marx where the modern definition of capitalism comes from and it's pretty much "what capitalists do, systemically, to stay in power": Accumulate their capital, evade regulation, generate monopolies, seek rents, etc.

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They very much expect the SPD to defend things like co-determination laws to the death, though. They also expect the SPD to implement referenda that say that landlords with over 1000 apartments should be expropriated, that they're dragging their feet on that kind of stuff ("but the markets might get uneasy and that would have consequences") is one of the reasons why they don't poll well.

Can you imagine a US city the size of Berlin pushing through a referendum to expropriate landowners? That's how far apart the overton windows are. There's hardly even overlap.

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If you read it again, maybe you'll find the subtle difference.

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That's cool!

Iceblade

Please do stay!

Yeah, a lot of the fediverse has an extreme left slant, and that's coming from someone living in a rather left-leaning country.

As someone who jumped the reddit ship during the blackout protest and has been here ever since, mostly out of principle, it has slowly been getting better as more people filter in.

astro_ray

I will join an HIMYM community if you create one. I am a big fan.

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So if you can't handle that there are other opinions, you either need to find the communities which support your opinions or go back to corporate internet, which filters out uncomfortable stuff for you.

qaz

Lemmy.world is considered the "normie" instance. Even if you manage to find another instance, it won't matter that much anyway since most interactions are from federated users.

Cassa

I would say mixed-marked advokates fit into left wing as well, social democray and so forth.

You know left "lite"

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The worst enemy of a leftie are other slightly different lefties lol

The good think of federation is that you can mute/block morons. And because there's no "algorithm" you are not shown content that the server thinks you are interested. So you have to be proactive and follow what you want to see, and mute the ones you dislike.

Also, you can have multiple accounts for multiple purposes. It's sane not to discuss politics with other people from other cultures all day, so you can have a dedicated account for that. And other account to have fun in a sane way, which includes muting politics.

In the case of this girl, she was american like the majority of lemmings I believe. But for people from the other hemisphere, the cultural shock may be even worse. My advice for those is alway: Just mute. Don't argue and don't feed trolls. Nobody is gonna change opinions anyway

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In other words you're looking for a conservative instance? Fuck off, we ban them.

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Sounds to me more like it's getting worse then, not better.