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Is there a "normie" or more mainstream instance for Lemmy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Actually that was my instinctual thought as well. Though, I might be primed as a result of some of the responses.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

Sorry, it wasn't clear to me. Are you saying that your first association of the name Communick is with "Communism"?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

Add me to the list. Not helped by the fact that "-ik" is a common russian suffix.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Yep me too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

I'm making a poll on Mastodon to see if it's a matter of sample bias.

https://mastodon.communick.com/@raphael/113879891465168070

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

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.)