I’m a conservative. I don’t mind the liberal stuff here. It’s good to learn the other side, but I don’t want a liberal echo chamber. I’d like to be more politically balanced in the fediverse. Is there any way I can do that?
I’m a conservative. I don’t mind the liberal stuff here. It’s good to learn the other side, but I don’t want a liberal echo chamber. I’d like to be more politically balanced in the fediverse. Is there any way I can do that?
I think by very nature of the Fediverse having somewhat leftist ideas baked into the design philosophy (decentralized, transparent, FOSS, and communal in design), that it gives the Fediverse an intrinsically left-leaning audience, so it may be harder to find a right-leaning community that isn’t extreme right like some others have mentioned. In general, I’d say that the needle points significantly left-of-center on the Fediverse as a result.
With Threads possibly federating soon, it’s possible that that may attract more conservative users to the Fediverse as a whole, which may foster the development of more conservative corners of the platform for those who want to venture outside of Meta’s bounds. Though that mostly applies to the Mastodon/microblogging side of things, not so much the Lemmy/Kbin stuff. Though technically Mastodon and Lemmy are compatible, as well, so that may still bring more conservative spaces, as well. Time will tell on that.
I am yet to spot a conservative on Mastodon.
There are conservatives on Mastodon, but the rest of the Fediverse defederates the explicitly conservative instances. The big ones are Gab, Parler, and TruthSocial, which don’t seem to federate with anybody at all. (I would advise against looking them up, because they have a rather high concentration of Nazis).
Oh I’m fully aware of Gab. I stumbled upon on one of their instances that was blocked from lemmy.world. Wasn’t sure if it was actually a Gab instance but it sure as shit was.
Personally, I quite enjoy perusing the memes on the myriad of conspiracy theories they like to peddle. The whole website is a guilty pleasure of mine.
I thought gab pulled the plug on federation because their goal wasn’t to be federated in the first place, it was just a force themselves on others and be accessible from the Play store.
One could argue that decentralized, bottom up organization is essentially the structure of the modern evangelical movement… It’s also kinda the playbook for modern terrorism though… ISIS, Timothy McVeigh, etc…
It would be nice to have moderate conservative voices in the mix but unfortunately that world just seems to be filled with mostly batshit crazy ideas that do more harm than good.
… life
Wait, I take a week off and threads federating is possible? What the hell?
Thats always been on the cards, on threads side. It was just a lot of instances were calling to preempt it by defederating beforehand.
Its been going on for much longer than a week
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