Hi! In thinking about how to help the fediverse grow, I wonder if there are more mainstream Lemmy instances?
I’ve pointed a couple folks to Lemmy.world and it’s uhhh, pretty hard Left for them (as one girl, who volunteered for the Democrats said “I just got yelled at because I can’t be Left wing unless I want to destroy capitalism? Which feels weird.”) We’re much farther Left than reddit which itself was definitely Left of centre…
I don’t know if decentralized open source social media actually attracts many mainstreamers but assuming we want to grow the fediverse, I’d like to have somewhere I can point people to without feeling very nervous for them.
Thanks!
Actually that was my instinctual thought as well. Though, I might be primed as a result of some of the responses.
Sorry, it wasn’t clear to me. Are you saying that your first association of the name Communick is with “Communism”?
Add me to the list. Not helped by the fact that “-ik” is a common russian suffix.
Yep me too
I’m making a poll on Mastodon to see if it’s a matter of sample bias.
https://mastodon.communick.com/@raphael/113879891465168070
Admittedly, I had communism on the mind but it’s two letters apart… And in the context of taking on corpo social media… I dunno. Again, I was primed but that was my immediate assumption. (Though, you know what they say about assumptions.)