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

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Queer people like myself are currently in the crosshairs and don’t have the energy or patience to put up with this shit.

I’ve been screaming from the top of my lungs since 2000!!!! about how we were heading towards fascism and nobody listened. I’m out of fucks to give. If they’re too stupid to see it that’s on them.

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I think the way to do it would be this but you probably can do it a lot more ways.

Lemmy (and the fediverse as a whole) are not supposed to be a drop in replacement for reddit and other corpo media. No central moderation or "direction", just a ton of servers with very varying user counts, ideas and ways to do things.

When on the fediverse, you will definitely encounter bad stuff. You will learn to use the block button and maybe block whole instances. Thats how you make your own "bubble".

Since the fediverse is federated, horizontally organized and has freedom of association, it is hugely different from any other social gathering in the outside world. All our Lives we live in hierarchical structures: Families (more or less), Schools, Companies, etc. That can be the reason why it feels alien. But I dare you to try and see if "freedom" cant feel nice to you.

It will never feel like reddit or other places on the corpo web. If you need that, its not the place for you. If you can be open to a new experience and just decide between listening to an opinion or blocking it, you might have a lot of fun. Good luck

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The beauty of the fediverse is, they're already here. They may be just like you, wondering where the content they're looking for is, but unwilling to get the ball rolling. If no one starts it, it never happens.

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It's a bit more like:

Capitalism creates the material conditions that promote fashism
Democrates aren't fashists, but they keep capitalism
The material conditions that promote fashism end up happening and fashism props up
Fashists end up getting elected

The point isn't that the Democrats are fashists, but that they would rather continue support the thing that litterally empowers fashism rather than doing anything else. Kinda like a person who refuses to get vaccinated and spreads a disease to everyone else.

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Might take a look at the instance I’m on. Lemmy.sdf.org. It’s pretty chill, and SDF has been doing the social media thing since the 80’s without much issue. Started as a dial up BBS devoted to anime back in the day. Leans anime, music/art generally and computers. Supported via donations.

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That’s the thing though American politics get discussed here. With their perceptions of left and right.

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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.

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Yeah, I like all these ideas. I wondered about some sort of pooled "ban/ignore" options at the individual level. So, rather than ignoring by an instance, if I trust that Janet has good tastes and filters out children and trump, maybe I can just have an ongoing list that draws from her blocks and vice versa if she feels similar.

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According to capitalism, capitalism is the only regulation capitalism needs. Capitalism regulated by something other than capitalism is anti-capitalism.

Respectfully, I don't think this is true.

Even Adam Smith warned about the dangers of monopolies and the fact that businesses would try to crate them, collide againat consumers etc. That's kind of the foundation of anti trust legislation.

Now, modern republicans have endorsed the view of capitalism that you've noted but to say that's the how Capitalism works is like saying Soviet Russia is how communism works.

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Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I really like the idea of people with likewise sensibilities being able to act as their own cross-community mod team, without impacting other groups with different sensibilities.

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I appreciate the well thought response. I habe quibbles but overall agree with you.

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Oh I don't know much about those, I'll take a look! Thanks!

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Oh neat, I'll take a look! Thanks!

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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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This is some incel logic.

"Women won't date me so I'll call them bitches and sluts!"

"People don't vote for my side so I'll say they're enabling fascism!"

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Something like that! This seems like a solveable problem...

ShadowRam

That's a very absolutist view of the meaning of Capitalism.

With that view, how could anyone be against Capitalism then?

It's technically never been tried with that definition.

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Oh, it bugs me sometimes but I'm a believer in what the fediverse is trying to do.

It's more that I just think our loud minority make engaging much less enjoyable, which then blocks the growth needed to get the niche interests and content etc. Why write a comment or post a meme if a bunch of comments are going to be dicks about it?

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Good points!

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Ahahaha, hadn't even noticed that!