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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[–] Lauchs@lemmy.world -1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

The point is that you want somewhere with a large userbase so as to ensure there's content to enjoy.

Creating my own seems... not helpful.

[–] rglullis 3 points 22 hours ago

a large userbase so as to ensure there’s content to enjoy.

That's not a requirement. Yeah, it takes some getting used to the idea that people might have to be the first to "discover" a community in order to have it in the frontpage, but even my modest instance is well connected enough as to not seem empty to newcomers.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 22 hours ago

The beauty of the fediverse is, they're already here. They may be just like you, wondering where the content they're looking for is, but unwilling to get the ball rolling. If no one starts it, it never happens.