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!

  • PeriodicallyPedanticEnglish
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    6 hours 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.