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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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Make your own?

[–] Lauchs@lemmy.world 0 points 17 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 16 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.

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