What instance has mostly reasonable moderate conservative/liberal people?

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What instance has mostly reasonable moderate conservative/liberal people? - Lemmy.World

I came here a few weeks ago after many years of reddit. Altogether I find discussions I enjoy, however, the posts and comments noticeably lean, well, tankie (I didn’t know that term before I came here). It’s not that I am looking for an echo chamber, but I also don’t want to spend my time reading propaganda. I’m really curious about a lot of things outside politics, as well as the opinions and arguments of reasonable people across the political spectrum, but I don’t want to listen to the boring canned lies of fascists and tankies. I realized that people celebrating communist dictators trigger me, and this is something I didn’t have to deal with before I started reading lemmy, I didn’t even know this type existed. I also notice that accounts created just a few hours in advance come from other instances to brigade political posts. Because of how lemmy works, I can block individual users or communities, but not individual instances. Is there an instance that could be a “safe space” from this kind of brigading and tankie spam? Or a way to use the internet to read interesting things now that blogs died and then Reddit became whatever it became?

I largely use Lemmy because it doesn’t tolerate conservatives.

It’s 2026. There is no such thing as a moderate conservative. They don’t deserve the benefit of the doubt. They don’t deserve yet another platform to argue in bad faith on. They’ve gone too far. Every platform they touch turns into a cesspool of bigotry and garbage opinions they think should be taken seriously or they play victim.

I don’t want them on Lemmy.

I don’t want them on Lemmy.

Lemmy is open to anyone though. Excluding someone based on what they believe slides into the very fascism that many on Lemmy proclaim to be against. Intolerance is never a good thing, regardles of what your political outlook is.

Paradox of Tolerance my dude

Life, and people, aren’t as bad as Lemmy wants them to be. Many on Lemmy just doomscroll and revel in the fantasy of the earth being doomed and destroyed.

I refuse to live my life like that. I’ll live my life filled with joy, helping people out, knowing my neighbors, and loving others. So there is not Paradox of Tolerance in my life.

Good for you, must be nice living in a fantasy land like the pyro from TF2.

It’s fucking delusional it’s what it is, and you can’t just choose to ignore the paradox of tolerance, unless you want to turn your favourite bar into a nazi bar

How is it a fantasy world?

Do you realize that the US isn’t a war zone, and that most people just go along their daily lives of dropping kids off at school, hiking, mowing their lawns, going to work, going to the park, going on dates with their significant other, watching netflix, etc?

Most people don

Most people don’t make their politics their identity, nor do they talk about politics every single day, nor do they call every single person that disagrees with them a Nazi or a Fascist daily.

Most just don’t care about politics. As we saw in the election.

How is that a fantasy world? Normal society isn’t even close to what the Lemmy-verse is…lol

Lemmy has the worst cases of doomscrolling and negativity that I have ever seen.

A: you assume I’m American. I’m not. That’s an insult where I’m from.

B: it’s not open to everyone, don’t be stupid. It’s a walled and managed garden like every social media, just the walls are guarded by volunteers instead of staff

C: Right, let’s say that someone says something shitty and bigoted, you saying I should let them stay? Just answer that

I’m saying that not every conservative is shitty and bigoted. Lemmy doesn’t want to admit that though. That’s my point.

Lemmy has about 1.366 million registered users worldwide (with monthly active users way lower, around 48,000–50,000). That’s less than 0.0004% of the US population of roughly 343 million. Not even close to representing how the general US population feels about things.

They’re not all shitty and bigoted, but they are all comfortable with shittiness and bigotry, and that’s functionally the same thing