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

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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...

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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!

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If you are making alternatives to republicanism more unpleasant and unappealing to the people whom we need to persuade, well, it seems like you are aiding fascism...

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Generally, classically I've understood Socialism to still involve central planning of industry/production.

Whereas most modern socialist democracies tend to heavily regulate industry and enact social welfare programs to minimize the effects of different classes etc.

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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.

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“People don’t vote for my side so I’ll say they’re enabling fascism!”

iconic, I've been repeatedly told by liberals that because I voted third party that I'm essentially a trump voter.

that wasn't what was said though.

they said that liberals created the material conditions for fascism. i.e. by suppressing the left and only offering up warmongering and genocide they created a situation where someone like trump could get elected. again.

a fair number of the people who are on this platform are here specifically because oligarch-owned media sites heavily censor all left wing speech, and have done so for many years.