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!

  • Rikudou_SageEnglish
    9•6 hours ago

    My instance doesn’t really take a political stance, you’re welcome unless you’re an extremist (left or right, doesn’t really matter to me).

    Edit: But I think you’re not gonna get better content anywhere that’s federated, after all, your instance doesn’t matter that much if you’re seeing the same content everywhere.

    • @LauchsOPEnglish
      2•5 hours ago

      Yeah, I’m not sure what the solution is or if there even is one. To paraphrase Randal in Clerks “lemmy would be great if it weren’t for all the lemmings.”

      (I think a lot of folks are great but that small, albeit very vocal group… Ugh.)