My comment will only mean something if you understand that I am actually a moderate. I have voted for both parties. I don’t vote for politicians. I vote for policies. Policies that I think make sense and actually work. As a for instance I am against the banning of abortion, but think there should be some time limit based on when the fetus could survive outside the mother. I think that’s a moderate position.
When I first took a break from reddit and came over to lemmy I just lurked around. I didn’t sign up. I wanted to see if it would actually get off the ground. Present were the usual political groups mostly all expressing democrat/progressive opinions. As with reddit this is expected since these types of communities are comprised mostly of young people who are mostly on the progressive side of politics.
On the conservative side there were only a few groups as would be expected. Reddit also has few but they are allowed to exist and most use a flair based system. So if conservatives what to discuss policies they are not overwhelmed by non conservatives. Simply put you need to message the mods and tell them why you are a conservative to get flaired or auto mod will hold your post or comment pending mod review. I do not think lemmy has this feature. I think that communities dedicated to a specific political view should not have to be brigaded by those who disagree with them.
The thing that I found interesting on lemmy is that the few other conservative groups were all banned along with their creators and mods. This was documented via the mod logs. I of course never read every post or comment but I never once saw someone threatening others or calling for violence. Apparently they were banished because of their political views. I no longer remember the group name but one of the banned groups simply posted news articles that called into question some democrat party policies.
Coming full circle I’m not really interested enough in politics to join any political groups. I just wanted to post my observations as to how lemmy seems to handle them.
Dude - I don’t know where to look and a simple screenshot backing up your observations is no where near as difficult as telling me to “Google it,” basically.
I’d love to hear reasons people vote for Republican policies, as I do not see them being truthful in what they say the policy will accomplish vs. what is accomplished.
I have several friends who are conservative and moderates and have a text chain going back 6+ years, personally between them and myself.
The one constant we ask for, that has been instrumental in our continued friendship, is that if you make a claim provide the source.
It would be better if that was the accepted standard for discussions with differing view points.