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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[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure that "got yelled at" is a great metric. On L.W., it probably depends on the community a bit but it's not likely they're getting yelled at by a mod, or having their post/comment deleted, right? No one's going to ban their account there.

In terms of users -- except for the bad places -- everywhere is "here." You can block people that are being exceptionally dickish too.

And, real talk, you can say "it's a beautiful day today" and there'll be two dildos that downvote you and maybe someone that's like "not everywhere!!!" Don't let it get ya down.

[–] Lauchs@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Oh, it bugs me sometimes but I'm a believer in what the fediverse is trying to do.

It's more that I just think our loud minority make engaging much less enjoyable, which then blocks the growth needed to get the niche interests and content etc. Why write a comment or post a meme if a bunch of comments are going to be dicks about it?