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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[–] m_f@discuss.online 5 points 17 hours ago (11 children)

Kind of a silly question, but asked honestly: How much do you think the name "communick" matters when trying to convince "normies" to try it out? Would they see that, read it as a play on "Communist", and assume it's only for extremists or whatever?

[–] rglullis 1 points 17 hours ago (10 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...

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