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

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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.

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Mods please install an upvote twice button.

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Lol @ "who volunteered for the Democrats". Ain't that a microcosm of every American politico (especially Democrats) ignorant of actual political theory.

Imagine getting upset that someone accurately described "leftism" to you. I can only imagine it's major cognitive dissonance after a lifetime of consuming mainstream political media calling liberalism "leftist" and pushing the overton window right.

Lemmy.world already is the "normie" instance catering to liberalism. Your friend either ran into the more progressive parts of that instance or an actual leftist from a federated one. Either way, they got told an accurate take.

Anyway, can we please stop all the attempts to make this place comfortable for conservative and right wing views in the name of "growth"? Have y'all actually been on a default subreddit in the last 15 years? Would that be worth it here?

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Hey you're doing the thing

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I think one of the issues is "normies" do not want to learn the lore like:

"don't bother with anyone with lemmygrad after their name"

"Block these communities on day one"

"Be sure to pick an instance that you researched aligns with your moderation tolerances"

If you have to do setup stuff, many folks are already out. Someone may see that as a feature, but I don't see Lemmy growing much more with that "feature".

So if you're happy with the size of things, mission accomplished. If you want to discuss "how to grow Lemmy" well, the above topics need to be addressed.

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Does hexbear run two instances or is that a mistake?

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Left "wing" in normie US is a broad neighborhood.

Left "ism" in normie US is a study of progressive politics with deviation from center exponentially growing as you go "more left".

Lots of "left wing" folks in the US are low on the leftism deviation curve, but due to the way things work in the US they are definitely "left wing".

So you absolutely get fiscal centrists with much "lefter" social opinions. And other "left-lite" view combos.

I think to grow Lemmy non combative, but non compromising spaces should exist. Much how some are warped right by spending too much time in the "manosphere" content, folks can be convinced of increasingly progressive politics by being welcomed here. Mind, I'm not saying anyone should cater to anything they don't agree with, but God damn Lemmy could be less combative. Purity testing mild left folks drives them right. You don't have to compromise your morals or positions to accomplish this.

So I'd close by saying Americans aren't "confused" about anything, they're just less exposed with further left policy / theory, due to being exposed most to milder progressive concepts.

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Until r/TheDonald you wouldn't really see right wing concepts on the frontpage.

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I'm like your friend. F--- leftists and f--- conservatives. I'm a hard core liberal and y'all can suck my d---.

I find lemm.ee is better than most but yeah as others have said, since everything is federated and the majority mass of users are hardcore leftists there's no way to really avoid them. Just get used to the downvotes and easily offended snowflakes and instabans and hope that as more people leave the mainstream social medias for federated socials that these people will be watered down.

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But an account means nothing, just make a new one on an instance that also aligns with your expectations

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Seriously people here seem to attach politics to a picture of a sandwich if God forbid the company logo is on the paper to the side.