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Lemmy is cool and all but the amount of communist obsession here is a bit much.
It was founded by a Communist, and decentralization appeals to leftists. The non-Communist lemmy is Reddit, basically, or making your own instance or finding an anti-Communist instance.
It'd be cool to see hosted lemmy instances where people can pay for their own without having to go through the setup process, then curate their own feeds. Unless that already exists somewhere.
I wouldn't say it's super easy, but self hosting on a VPS is definitely possible
That was actually my next logical step. I just need to spin up the node and configure and set DNS and whatnot, just need the time to dig into it.
This is why Lemmy will never be anything more than tiny a niche platform. It's a place for the far left by the far left. There's nothing here in place for anybody else. I don't just mean politics wise, I mean everything. There's nothing for fandoms, shows, movies, sports, or anything really. You have to be privacy/tech nerd or some left wing extremist to really enjoy this place more than Reddit. Since the portion of the population that this platform is trying to appeal to is extremely small, this platform will always be small. There's little to not attempts by the devs or the community to make this place appeal to everybody else.
What, exactly, could be done to make it appeal to non-leftists, structurally? Addition of advertisers? Lol.
There are few things the developers could do. For example, they could make the platform easier to use. Many people don't even reach this place because they're not that tech savvy or simple don't care enough to figure it out. It's much easier for them to just create an account and get started on Reddit or elsewhere. This leaves extremists with nowhere else to go and tech bros... which are the two groups that dominate this place. The process of getting on board and finding instances/communities needs to be easier. There needs to be something like centralized site/app that is easily accessible and shows all the different instances and communities in one place.
It's not that complicated, go to an instance and sign up.
What actually dominates Lemmy are groups of people that value bottom-up organizational structures, decentralization, FOSS, and other general structural decisions made with creating Lemmy. This leaves people that like these principles, and actually care enough to move to an instance despite mass adoption of a more top-down, Capitalist site like Reddit.
Decentralization isn't left wing or right wing, that's just a moronic analysis. Decentralization has a wide appeal but unless it gets simplified and standardized it will never become adopted by the mainstream. Places like Lemmy which are littered with gatekeepers like you doom this place to forever being a niche. If this place ever hopes of rivaling reddit, it needs to appeal to more than political extremists and tech nerds
Decentralization is far more left than it is right, hence why Lemmy has a ton of leftists. It wasn't just chance.
And the Linux/Firefox/Windows hating/Open source obsessions
That's not very revolutionary of you, comrade
Same, there's this political circlejerk everywhere I go here, I may agree with a lot of people here, but different POVs on politics would be refreshing...
Yeah fr! I sure do wish there were more ppl on here calling for the eradication of gays and people of color lmfao
/s
Lemmy in a nutshell -_-
TIL a different political opinion equates to killing all gays. Who would have known?
Lmao, thank you
Yeah I dunno dude, i live in the US, one party hates guys and blacks, are u actually that stupid?
And the comment was more of a take on reddit and the political views there. If I want to see shit like that I know where to look, but im not.
Not my fault u guys are brainwashed enough to have only two parties with only dumb people and ideals
Congratulations 🥳 You're super cool, buddy.
Thank you~
Different POV like what exactly? I'm genuinely asking. What political POV do u feel is missing or underrepresented on lemmy? 🤔
Everything that is not the progressive US left honestly
Lmfao.
There's a lot on lemmy that's too much, this isn't really a surprise
Wait lemmy is full of tankies? Fuck.... When I left reddit and twitter, i thought i would never have to see the terminally online left again.
Oh, and before the leftists come at me, I hate conservatives more, and yall need to admit that joe biden is doing a great job and exactly what you asked.
