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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?

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[-] gabe@literature.cafe 22 points 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.

[-] Puppy@kbin.social 19 points 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.

[-] Tetra@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

Isn't that just a fancy way of saying "I want more lies, ignorance and hate sprinkled in"?

"More politically balanced" lol

[-] CheshireSnake@lemdit.com 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So anyone who doesn't subscribe to everything you believe in or agree with are liars, ignorant, and hateful? Discussions and debate can be healthy.

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Ever been on a conservative subreddit? No matter how open minded you are, you can't overlook how they don't even care to spread misinformation.

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Normal, klassical conservative or "Republican party crazy level" racism and nazism?

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[-] filthyhookerspit@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

Not likely that there will be a conservative instance. Lemmys core principles are "left leaning" so that already lowers tolerance for the audience "the right" attracts. Every conservative instance eventually gets deleted and defederated because toxicity is baked into the idea. America's "left" is already right wing to the rest of the modern world, so going further than that is just... not great. You can hope for the "ENLIGHTENED_CENTRISTS" to try to keep a somewhat moderated instance but I wouldn't hold my breath.

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[-] berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Serious question: Wouldn’t you as a conservative who doesn’t want an echo chamber therefore NOT join a conservative community? Wouldn’t THAT put you in an echo chamber?

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[-] thedaly@toot.reseed.it 20 points 1 year ago

@Snowman44

My politics lean very far to the left, but I don't want to be an echo chamber and it saddens me to see how little room for political dialogue there is on lemmy. The echo chamber is a big problem with reddit, and is even worse on Lemmy.

Exploding-heads is the only instance I'm aware of with a more right leaning/conservative base. It is more troll content than any real discussion of politics though.

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

"It is more troll content than any real discussion of politics though."

Yeah that's how the republicans discuss politic

[-] ClockNimble@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I'm confused. You are here and engaging, but you think it is an echo chamber? Echo chambers aren't really conducive to outside opinions. I'm here and definitely not a liberal, I'm a humanitarian.

As long as you don't see any person to the left of you as a Liberal, you'll find a decently diverse pool here!

Stick around, smell the flowers.

[-] identity99567@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

I don't want to be in this echo chamber, I want to me in my echo chamber

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[-] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 year ago

Could you define "conservative" in terms of politics (presumably US)? For example, low taxes and small government? And/or anti abortion and pro religion? Anti gun safety legislation? Anti regulation?

Perhaps you're looking for the more contemporary definition of "conservative" that's come about since the Tea Party or MAGA movements started? Mostly focused on being against whatever liberals/progressive are for?

As others have mentioned I think there are a lot of spaces out there for the latter group. I'm not sure many exist for the former group.

[-] Chozo@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

I think by very nature of the Fediverse having somewhat leftist ideas baked into the design philosophy (decentralized, transparent, FOSS, and communal in design), that it gives the Fediverse an intrinsically left-leaning audience, so it may be harder to find a right-leaning community that isn't extreme right like some others have mentioned. In general, I'd say that the needle points significantly left-of-center on the Fediverse as a result.

With Threads possibly federating soon, it's possible that that may attract more conservative users to the Fediverse as a whole, which may foster the development of more conservative corners of the platform for those who want to venture outside of Meta's bounds. Though that mostly applies to the Mastodon/microblogging side of things, not so much the Lemmy/Kbin stuff. Though technically Mastodon and Lemmy are compatible, as well, so that may still bring more conservative spaces, as well. Time will tell on that.

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[-] phoenix591@lemmy.phoenix591.com 13 points 1 year ago

I recommend avoiding political communities in general. too many extremists on either side of the political spectrum.

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