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

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I feel like she wasn't told to use the block feature freely and deliberately. The block feature is your friend.

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Lemmy is notorious for asking and including sources. It's part of the culture. I wouldn't say you're supposed to swallow anything, but quite the contrary--make your stance.

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My impression is that Lemmy and the fediverse are a manifestation of the dissatisfaction with the current "normal" and "mainstream" social media platforms which are in decline due to hyper-capitalism. Is it no wonder the majority of its users' ideology doesn't align with what is "normal" and "mainstream"?

That being said, this system is designed so that communities can exist independently from one-another. You're always welcome to create your own. Otherwise, lemmy.world is just about as "normal" as you're going to get out of Lemmy.

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If you block political words and Linux this place is a ghost town...

... Except for LotR memes of course.

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Lemmy world is basically still Reddit. so that one

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Honestly liberals probably fit into lemmy fine. I’ve seen my fair share.

But your view of “normie” is heavily american centric. Your normies are probably far right in much of the world.

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Your friend is confused. Leftism is inherently anti-capitalist so she can’t be a leftist unless she wants to ditch capitalism.

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Unless “much of the world” is just the West please remember many nations are still under authoritarian rule.

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Im not sure all the Marxist read books but theor heart tends to be in a better place

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Most people in say America define Left Right on the current political spectrum, with Democrats on the left and Republicans on the Right.

It's like when people talk about work, we know they're not actually talking about Force times Distance as defined by Newtonian physics, we understand they are talking about their job.

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There are tens of us already!

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What a sad and narrow worldview.

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what thing?

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Americans do not get their own definition for philosophies.

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I seriously doubt most normies would enjoy Lemmy. But sh.itjust.works seems pretty middle of the road.

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It's the same in most countries. In Canada, we put the NDP on the Left, Liberals generally centre Left, Conservatives on the Right and the Bloc... well, they do Bloc things.

Similar set up in most places. In common conversation, Left Right mean a standard political spectrum.

If I said I went to work, have I redefined Newtonian physics?

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Thanks, I'll check it out!

I just love the idea of non corpo social media but to get the network effects to scale we need the normies...!

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press x to doubt

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I dunno... I admittedly live in a fairly liberal city in Canada but in casual conversation with all sorts of folks (I play soccer on 4 teams so have a pretty wild cross section of friends) I've heard lots of grumbles. Heck, a couple songs ago a random Tidal playlist song was groussing about the algorithms.

Even reddit had a bunch of grumbles and complaints and people looking for alternatives though I admittedly rarely look there anymore.

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No, it isn't. Unless you are Eurocentric and ignore most nationsliberalism is where the left starts though liberalism isn't "leftist". The right is authoritarianism. This is true all around the world.