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!

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11114·
    13 days ago

    Reddit was only ever left of center for Americans. To many/most non Americans, America consists of a far right party and a center to center right party.

    What you’re seeing is the result of a platform that wasn’t first created by and for American audiences, and whose initial takeup wasn’t dominated by American perspectives.

    • Lauchs@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      309·
      13 days ago

      I’m not American.

      Lemmy is much farther left than any of our national discourse.

      I get that American parties are farther Right than most but the discourse here is much farther Left than almost all political discourse. Edit: I’m happy to be corrected, show me a serious party in a position of power in a Western democracy committed to ending capitalism!

      • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        316·
        13 days ago

        I’m not saying that if you don’t want to destroy capitalism that you’re not left. I’m saying that the perspective that reddit itself was “definitely left of center” is not a widely shared perspective, and if you believe that reddit of all places was left of center, then lemmy, which actually is left of center, is going to feel very left of center.

        • Lauchs@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2014·
          13 days ago

          I’d strongly disagree. I think reddit is generally on the left side of most cultural and political institutions.

          To each their own though.

            • Lauchs@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              86·
              13 days ago

              Canada.

              No mainstream party suggests UBI as a matter of principle for example.

              • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
                7·
                13 days ago

                Our overton window is only a few degrees to the left of the US.

                Also the Ontario Liberals conducted a UBI pilot in Hamilton during the 2010s with the goal of proposing some form of it as a policy if results were positive. The OLP lost to the PCs in 2018 and Ford canned the project.

                Then there’s been the UBI experiment in Manitoba during the 70s.

              • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caEnglish
                5·
                13 days ago

                I don’t think that UBI is the predominant reddit viewpoint either - I think that’s just the subs you’re in.

                I’m Canadian too, and I certainly don’t consider reddit as left of center on average. It’s almost like 4chan lite.

                But on that note, if you’re looking for Canadian instances, there are a few good ones.
                The obvious one is lemmy.ca, but the other (bigger?) one is sh.itjust.works which is bilingual and I think is québécois.
                Presumably a Canadian instance would have relatively Canadian political leanings, although as has been said before, instance doesn’t really matter.