New to Lemmy and I quit reddit years ago and I remembered that r/conservatives was hostile to me for voicing my politics certain other subreddit made fun of me if I was wrong. I’m newish to the fediverse. I’m digging mastodon even though I never did Twitter
.world and .ml like to beef over their politics (generally liberal vs more leftist/Marxist)
Aside from that, people are generally pretty kind and won’t bash you for having left-of-center politics. If you’re a conservative, though, I’d expect downvotes. There just aren’t very many around on Lemmy. (And I personally think things are better that way.)
Same thoughts here, and I personally don’t like things this way :)
Politics (and Lemmy) showed me how low people can be in order to triumph their own party, It’s gross…
on Reddit I couldn’t tell if the person I’m replying to or them replying to me are leftists, centrists, or whatever… that’s diversity not being able to predict people, and read them like an open book, because you don’t know who they are, what their Philosophy In life is, they’ll surprise you with their opinions… On Lemmy however… I can tune my politics slider however I want, I know what political comments are going to get upvotes and downvotes, or get censored, or get the user banned… And no, they’re not offensive, just not politically correct…
I feel like I’m not taking freely as I used to do on Reddit, ironic but true, conservatives gets downvotes here, that’s an understatement, they get flamed and called Nazis… which I never saw happening on Reddit, people had debates and discussions like yanno… grown ups!
I remember I replied to someone, and basically said I’m not convinced about their political comment, It doesn’t matter… But this girl replied to me and started saying I’m just like Donald Trump a Liar… lol… Ok… I said Yes, I know he’s a liar…( I do ) then she wanted me to be an ally (like I guess politically aligned)… And I was like to myself… I’m I being drafted or something ?!
What makes this all super duper awkward, is that I’m from the middle of no where, I live in the sahara desert… anyways I rambled… the point is … people on Lemmy need to chill with their political stuff, not everyone who disagrees is an enemy or a “Nazi”… or looking for a fight… Many times people (Normal people) just want feedback… And it kinda triggers me to see people obviously having blind spots, yet insisting on their bias…
What a fucking whinge
sure… 😮💨
most of the “beef” actually happens in their own little threads with no cross interaction cause .world has hexbear and lemmygrad blocked
Ehhh there’s not no interaction though, as .ml has them all federated and quite a lot of posts are there
Even when the conversation happens on a “bridge” instance, the users of the instances defederated from each other don’t see each other’s comments. They have an abridged view of the conversation.
Ahh my mistake, you’re right
Is that Why I see so many gaps?? How do you check which are and aren’t federated. I want to see as many as possible, even if they’re dipshit ones
https://defed.xyz/
Bruh blahaj defederated all the porn? Lol. Thanks for the link!
both .world and lemm.ee are conservative enough for each one to have their own thriving conservative sub communities; i doubt op would get down votes from them.
Man, that must be tough for them. Lemmings run between solidly Democrat and contemplating critical support for Pol-Pot.
democrats are politically center-right for in the entire western world, so it’s not at all a stretch to be conservative, religious, and democrat all at the same time.
the way i’ve politically sparred with them on lemmy proves to me that this is what most of the people of .world and .ee are like; status-quo americans.
Yes. That’s a lot of older African-Americans, from what I’ve heard. Church every Sunday, but they’d chew off their own leg before they vote Trump.
My impression is that the average .world user is a progressive. Some stray towards centrism, some are communist. The Pol-Pot post I saw was on Hexbear.
IRL, well, you know.
as i said earlier, .world is center-right; i don’t get any sense of progressiveness from them.
they might be progressive compared to republicans, but not compared to your average western european or latin american or canadian; aka the western world.