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!

  • Lauchs@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    2125·
    2 天前

    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
        88·
        2 天前

        Canada.

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

            • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caEnglish
              72·
              2 天前

              Canada is just America but 2 election cycles behind. We’re very similar politically, most of the left leaning appearance is just lip service, not policy. Look at how we continue to treat indigenous peoples.

                • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caEnglish
                  2·
                  2 天前

                  I mean, that probably depends on the country, right? Tbf I don’t know much about them.

                  The point simply is that Canada isn’t especially left. We can’t be, since we’re joined at the hip to the USA.

            • WhoLooksHere@lemmy.worldEnglish
              61·
              2 天前

              Canadian here, most of Europe. We’re looking like we’re expecting Trump lite this year. Not to mention Harper was, a lot.

              • Kaboom@reddthat.comEnglish
                51·
                2 天前

                Most of Europe is one bad economic year away from voting in Nazis (AfD and Le Pen) and the literal fascists in Italy. Not to mention Central and Eastern Europe.

        • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
          12·
          2 天前

          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·
          2 天前

          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.