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What instance has mostly reasonable moderate conservative/liberal people?

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?

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DarkFuture 1d ago

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.

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Jankatarch 1d ago

There are a lot of “bipartisan” social media communities (at least they self-advertise as such)

There are also social media communities for mainly conservatives.

Surely there can be one form of social media for leftists to talk to each other.

I enjoy reading anarchists and socialists debate their case because I actually agree with points they make.

Some highschooler screaming about how God wants capitalism on the side would contribute anything to the conversation, we already established their ideas don’t work. Let us actually come up with new ones now.

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Tollana1234567

i would but they behave too much like conservatives for my taste especially how to they become defensive, and label everything “lib”