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

Ada

A nazi sympathising president was voted in, because the overton window has shifted sufficiently to the right to allow that to happen.

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The key is finding the communities you like and blocking the others, and users, that you dont.

There’s an up-front time-cost but it’s easy to adjust and makes for a great experience.

Avid Amoeba

Do you know that when they use the term liberalism, they likely mean economic liberalism?

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I got banned from every platform, and my account on lemmy.world was also banned.

Gee, from your comments on this post I could never imagine how that could happen.

If everywhere you go people smell like shit, maybe you should check your shoes.

I'd strongly suggest that the issue isn't your beliefs, but that you're about as abrasive as kissing the pavement at 75mph.

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Then maybe don't waste energy being shitty online and instead build the local community and personal resources to protect your ass.

If I was in your situation looking at the changes Trump did in just the executive orders his first day, I can tell you one thing that would be at the absolute fucking bottom of my todo list: argue on the fucking internet.

Avid Amoeba

Can vouch for this. I learned a thing or two from people who had the patience to explain. Including some ML people. @[email protected] for example has nerves of steel. Permanent snark isn't useful but it's understandable, especially coming from people who are being actively harmed.

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shifted to the point where a double Sieg Heil at your president's inauguration is within normal discourse

Haha thank you. I'm not even American but to me it's pretty shocking to find out that this place, world of all instances, is too 'extreme' for people. Maybe I really am a dirty radical but I think that if people who consider themselves democrats are still fucking clutching their pearls about the left wing being too left wing while Elon Musk does open nazi salutes and trans people get their rights and dignity stripped away, then it's no wonder the USA is so fucked.

You guys clearly need a new political party because your choices are overt right wingers, or spineless right wingers that like to pretend they represent the left.

Avid Amoeba

Yes. I don't remember which instance did this but I remember I encountered it some time ago.

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Typical liberal tone policing while lives are at stake.

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I’m currently extremely ill and bedridden with a painful and dangerous dental infection that I’m struggling to get adequate treatment for thanks to capitalism.

But yeah, do tell me how to live my life. Typical liberal scolding.

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Canadian here, most of Europe. We're looking like we're expecting Trump lite this year. Not to mention Harper was, a lot.

Avid Amoeba

People bash centrism because centrism has allowed ever increasing wealth inequality that's creating the material conditions for the fascism we see descending around us. Centrism is unsustainable. Many of us have realized how the process works and why the downward spiral can only be reversed by moving away from centrism. I'm not here to argue or discuss, but simply to explain why you see centrism bashing comics.

Cowbee [he/they]

Appreciate the kind words! You're 100% correct in saying that snark isn't useful but is understandable. Many good people are being actively harmed and are out of patience in explaining how and why said harm exists, and how we can move beyond it. Ultimately, what I've found is that most people aren't going to be convinced of something that seriously challenges their worldview in a single conversation, but through compatible life experiences make themselves more open to new ideas. Those are the ones that end up listening to others genuinely and taking to heart what the other person has to say.

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The instance you're on only matters in so far as which other instances they've defederated.
You can probably find more centerist instances, but it doesn't really matter because your friend is probably just going to be in the same communities anyways.

I'm not really sure I'd call reddit left of center, though.

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I was not going to, even if I was a centrist.

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I don't think that UBI is the predominant reddit viewpoint either - I think that's just the subs you're in.

I'm Canadian too, and I certainly don't consider reddit as left of center on average. It's almost like 4chan lite.

Avid Amoeba

I apologize for impli-slandering you.

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Canada is just America but 2 election cycles behind. We're very similar politically, most of the left leaning appearance is just lip service, not policy. Look at how we continue to treat indigenous peoples.

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Well yeah I wasn't saying all of them are. I was saying a disproportionate amount of them. IE say anti-capitalist views that are 1 in 1000 on facebook, are 1 in 50 on reddit, and 2 of 5 on lemmy.

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Everything I don't like is Liberal: A Guide to Modern Lemmy Discourse

More seriously, lives are not at stake in this particular comment section.