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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[–] rglullis@communick.news 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I really don't get this "if you don't block XYZ, it means you are in favor of them".

My instance does not block any of the big tankies, and yet it has not been a problem.

[–] m_f 7 points 22 hours ago

I'm not saying that leaving an instance unblocked means you're in favor of them, to be clear. My response was only addressing the issue of achieving a "normie" experience.