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!

  • Sergio@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Lemmy is different from Reddit in one important way.

    Reddit is a product. You install the app, you look at the ads, the mods and admins curate an endless feed of cartoons and safe ragebait and awwwunexpectedsmiles.

    Lemmy is an environment. If you’re passive, then any random thing may happen to you. So you have to be proactive in this environment.

    • You could subscribe to communities that are non-politics/news, non-meme, non-tech, and browse these “subscribed” communities.
    • You could use blocklists, as described elsewhere in this post.
    • You could find an instance that does some of this work for you, by defederating and blocking certain types of opinions and behaviors. This seems to be what you want, and many people have provided suggestions.

    These are all ok. But the one defining characteristic of Lemmy is that it is not just another product.