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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[–] qaz@lemmy.world 27 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Lemmy.world is considered the "normie" instance. Even if you manage to find another instance, it won't matter that much anyway since most interactions are from federated users. The only way to avoid leftist views on Lemmy is to avoid politics completely (which isn't viable).

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Many people block all political communities and keywords. It's definitely viable.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

If you block political words and Linux this place is a ghost town...

... Except for LotR memes of course.