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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] 6 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

‘Left-wing’ in casual use in the US refers to “everyone except the Republicans and some moderates”, but “left-wing” in any serious political talk refers to anti-capitalism.

Please list the mainstream "leftist" parties in any G20 nation that are "anti-capitalist"; and by mainstream I mean they have more than two representatives at the federal level.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Socdems are leftist, even if you might disagree with their whole non-revolutionary approach. Definitely more leftist than the billionaire-creating CCP which yes is in the G20. China is part of that club. The whole EU, constitutionally, is not capitalist but a social market economy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Mainstream leftist parties aren't necessarily leftist, especially economically leftist. E.g. the Democratic party in the US.