I’m a conservative. I don’t mind the liberal stuff here. It’s good to learn the other side, but I don’t want a liberal echo chamber. I’d like to be more politically balanced in the fediverse. Is there any way I can do that?

  • gabe [he/him]A
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    1 year ago

    It depends on what you mean by conservative. If you’re going by the American definition, then good luck as all of those have been mass defederated due to them nearly always turning into far right toxic harassment zones. If you are European though and go by their definition, you’ll probably be fine. America leans very right by default. Democrats to a degree are skewed right wing at the very least economically.

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      1 year ago

      This. Conservative in the US is basically extreme-right/fascism in the rest of the world. Even democrats would be considered right learning in say, Canada.

      If you are the MAGA kind, you WILL need an echo chamber because nobody wants to interact with these anymore.

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      1 year ago

      due to them nearly always turning into far right toxic harassment zones

      As decided by the far left people running the other instances. Doesn’t matter if they’re not actually “far right” or “toxic” when all it takes is one person to decide that they’re “toxic” and they are defederated.

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        1 year ago

        If they are harassing people, then yes they are toxic? exploding-heads harasses people across instances and just generally stirs shit

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          1 year ago

          I don’t know what exploding-heads is, but you can’t use what I presume is one instance or site as a flag bearer for everything.

          Far left instances are just as toxic in their harassment.

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            1 year ago

            No, they aren’t. You are delusional if you think so. They are still extremely problematic but tankies are a different breed than nazis.