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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[–] rglullis 1 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

You are the first that makes this association, at least that I know of.

Communick is rooted on "Communication", "nickname" and "unique": because the original idea was that people that sign up to the service get an unique username across all instances...

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

To my American eyes and English speaking self, I assumed it was associated with communism. (I don't think it's bad or anything.)

[–] rglullis 1 points 17 hours ago

I'm finding it incredibly ironic. Mine is the only instance that is unashamedly for-profit and access is only for paying customers...

[–] Lauchs@lemmy.world 4 points 17 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.

[–] rglullis 0 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 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"?

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yep me too

[–] rglullis 1 points 16 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

[–] Lauchs@lemmy.world 1 points 17 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.)

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Honestly, I got also the impression that Communick was about communism, not communication. I just never felt I needed to state it anywhere.

[–] rglullis 2 points 17 hours ago

Looks like I need to improve the marketing and messaging...

Home page from Communick

See that "grayed out" SIP part? That's what was meant to be my first actual service, but I can not afford to offer SIP until I consistently hit ~$1000/month in revenue.