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Hi! In thinking about how to help the fediverse grow, I wonder if there are more mainstream Lemmy instances?

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 2 points 17 hours ago (17 children)

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I guess... Well, I have trouble seeing the fediverse expand that far then. Which is fine but there have been a lot of pleas to make this a viable alternative to corpo social media.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 27 points 17 hours ago (12 children)

I don't think it helps that politics absolutely dominates Lemmy, where Reddit has enough diverse subreddits that you could probably just avoid politics all together.

It's much harder to get away from it here. But hopefully, as Lemmy grows then we start to see more and more users in the non political communities and people can have a laugh without people jumping down their throats. People just need to stick to it and give it a good go and help build something great.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago (8 children)

It's a circling the drain problem. Even though Lemmy is (slowly) expanding.

Lemmy doesn't have the raw numbers userbase to just have anyone come in, and find a niche topic with an active community.

But because any average user can't come in and just find their niche community, they don't stay.

Meanwhile politics HAS active communities. So politics grow. And thats where Lemmy is growing.

But I can't find a community for "How I met your mother". A tv show that concluded like 10 years ago. But the show takes place in the future, recounting stories from "the past". Which means, in real life, Tracy, the mother who Ted is talking about, died in 2024. The story is being told in 2036. But the show aired in real time during "the past". Which means if Ted is talking about April 2008, that episode aired in April 2008. But the whole ~~9~~ 8 seasons (real fans don't count the 9th season that never happened) is being told in one afternoon in 2036. Which means we could be talking about the last ciggerrette of each character as they happen in real time. I think the next one is in 2028.

Instead.......we talk about trump here.....and seemingly nothing else. Ever.

I'd like !clevelandguardians@fanaticus.social and /c/Cleveland to grow so we can talk about eyebrows and how great Jose Rameriez is.

[–] rglullis 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Last season was great. It was only the finale that sucked...

(and, yes, if you want a HIMYM community, just let me know and I can make it on https://metacritics.zone/)

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, yeah, go ahead and make it. But based on my quick look of your instance, none of the communities are active. That's the part we need to work on for ALL your instance.

[–] rglullis 1 points 14 hours ago

Yeah, and this is the part where Fediverser was supposed to help. Not just with the mirrors to help bootstrap the content, but also with the whole part of Community Ambassadors. Sadly, no one got into the ambassador part.

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