the big stickied thread is getting cluttered with lots of new people and the “how was your week” thread isn’t a great fit for introductions, so it seems about time to make this a dedicated thread of its own so peoples’ posts aren’t getting lost.
tell us a little bit about yourself, folks. don’t gotta be too specific or revealing, just whatever you want to put out there. this’ll be a good way of getting to know all the people you’re now on here with
The predominance of the leftist instances worried me too. Hopefully since this immigration wave isn’t caused by an offcasting of undesirables, it won’t suffer the same problems as voat.
I mean, there’s nothing wrong with a reasonable instance that noticeably veers to the left on the political spectrum but, back then, my first impression of this platform was being very passionate about open-source and libre software, which was great, but when it came to politics, it felt like an echo chamber of “west bad, China good”.
Hopefully, this influx of new users helps with that. One thing I also liked about the other platforms I mentioned was that, namely on Empeopled, we had a lot of community engagement. Like, we had book clubs and music clubs and there weren’t a lot of us but most engaged actively with the site (as far as I can remember anyway). I hope people can replicate the same sense of community here.
“West bad, China good” is definitely not what I’d consider a leftist stance