Hi! In thinking about how to help the fediverse grow, I wonder if there are more mainstream Lemmy instances?

I’ve pointed a couple folks to Lemmy.world and it’s uhhh, pretty hard Left for them (as one girl, who volunteered for the Democrats said “I just got yelled at because I can’t be Left wing unless I want to destroy capitalism? Which feels weird.”) We’re much farther Left than reddit which itself was definitely Left of centre…

I don’t know if decentralized open source social media actually attracts many mainstreamers but assuming we want to grow the fediverse, I’d like to have somewhere I can point people to without feeling very nervous for them.

Thanks!

  • Lauchs@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    72·
    13 hours ago

    Canada.

    No mainstream party suggests UBI as a matter of principle for example.

    • queermunist she/herEnglish
      134·
      12 hours ago

      There it is.

      Your “country” is a collection of mining and timber companies in a trench coat.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      11 hours ago

      Our overton window is only a few degrees to the left of the US.

      Also the Ontario Liberals conducted a UBI pilot in Hamilton during the 2010s with the goal of proposing some form of it as a policy if results were positive. The OLP lost to the PCs in 2018 and Ford canned the project.

      Then there’s been the UBI experiment in Manitoba during the 70s.

    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      10 hours ago

      I don’t think that UBI is the predominant reddit viewpoint either - I think that’s just the subs you’re in.

      I’m Canadian too, and I certainly don’t consider reddit as left of center on average. It’s almost like 4chan lite.

      But on that note, if you’re looking for Canadian instances, there are a few good ones.
      The obvious one is lemmy.ca, but the other (bigger?) one is sh.itjust.works which is bilingual and I think is québécois.
      Presumably a Canadian instance would have relatively Canadian political leanings, although as has been said before, instance doesn’t really matter.