Is there a "normie" or more mainstream instance for Lemmy?

[miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Agreed. I got lost at 'Reddit is left...'
Huh?

[inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Lemmy world left???? Lol they’re milquetoast liberals and capitalism is garbage. Your friend needs to grow up.

[lauchs@lemmy.world]

Yeah, this is exactly the childish annoyances and unpleasantness I'm talking about.

[inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Sorry not sorry. The world is falling to fascism thanks to the conditions created by capitalism and your friend needs to grow the fuck up and read some history. Lemmy world is centrist lib shit takes, if your friend thinks that’s “left” then maybe they should go to a fascist platform like meta or x where they belong.

[lauchs@lemmy.world]

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I guess... Well, I have trouble seeing the fediverse expand that far then. Which is fine but there have been a lot of pleas to make this a viable alternative to corpo social media.

[db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Mate, you're not going to deconvert libs by pushing them towards the fascists. You don't have to be so antagonistic all the time.

[inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

As a queer person I’ve completely lost my patience with shit libs. They’re fascists.

Also if they’re that easily pushed to fascism they had it in them all along and were never an ally and don’t belong on lemmy.

[rimu@piefed.social]

Some instances have blocked the furtherist-left instances and banned the most abrasive users from those that remain. It's not at all how jeffw described.

[lauchs@lemmy.world]

If you are making alternatives to republicanism more unpleasant and unappealing to the people whom we need to persuade, well, it seems like you are aiding fascism...

[qaz@lemmy.world]

Lemmy.world is considered the "normie" instance. Even if you manage to find another instance, it won't matter that much anyway since most interactions are from federated users. The only way to avoid leftist views on Lemmy is to avoid politics completely (which isn't viable).

[gbu_28@lemm.ee]

Until r/TheDonald you wouldn't really see right wing concepts on the frontpage.

[madbob@feddit.nl]

I distinctly remember liberal messages rising to the top on Reddit, stuff like that you should just accept that you have to go out and work for a living. That's not left!

[gbu_28@lemm.ee]

10s of millions of "left wing" (read, the entire spectrum from center to marx) folks believe that, for better or worse.

That opinion is entirely valid as "left wing" but certainly isn't very left, on an absolute scale.

[gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de]

Yes, I agree. Most people in the US are definitely not Marxist-Leninist, yet that's a vibe i get here frequently.

A more mainstream instance for normal people would be nice. Maybe there should be a non-profit organization behind it to back it up, pay the server bills, and such.

[madbob@feddit.nl]

I disagree. Having some kind of grievance with capitalism an sich is central to being leftwing.

[gbu_28@lemm.ee]

If left-wing covers all concepts left of center, and many mild left policy still incorporates capitalism, then it can't be reduced that strictly. I could agree that progressive or far left policy isn't compatible with capitalism

Edit either way, we disagree on semantics. It's off topic for the original question now (I'm not sticking that on you, I contributed to this semantic rabbit hole)

To circle it back, I think there's a way to invite "normies", maintain left leaning (even very left leaning) positions, and not compromise the platform.

Edit edit and I think that's possible without purity testing or shotgunning people with theory

[lemminary@lemmy.world]

Many people block all political communities and keywords. It's definitely viable.

[dozzi92@lemmy.world]

If you block political words and Linux this place is a ghost town...

... Except for LotR memes of course.

[feelthepower@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Lemmy world is basically still Reddit. so that one

[fundmecfsresearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Honestly liberals probably fit into lemmy fine. I’ve seen my fair share.

But your view of “normie” is heavily american centric. Your normies are probably far right in much of the world.