Hey guys one of the things I miss about reddit is communities like r/Conservative or r/conspiracy, not because I agree with really anything they say there, but because it’s a challenge for me.
It’s really easy to say “no you’re dumb and wrong”, but I like going down rabbit holes so I will take the bat shit insane stuff they say and find actual sources to refute them. I know it won’t actually change any minds but it’s fun for me.
I know theres @conservative@lemm.ee but that is basically just non-conservatives making fun of conservatives. And I have not been able to find any good conspiracy theory communities on Lemmy at all.
Any advice?
There’s probably some, but keep in mind that your instance has to be federated with them and lemmy.world generally defederates a lot of the more extreme instances (plus a few benign but potentially illegal instances, since the admins don’t want legal trouble.)
That said, Lemmy historically is rather extreme “left” (if you can call it that lol) so much so that the .ml of lemmy.ml stands for Marxist-Leninst. That starting point kinda makes the rest of us the conservatives of the community.
If you want to feel challenged, look into who we defederate from. Hexbear, lemmygrad, beehaw, etc. I’m sure those rabbit holes will be new to you, although heaven help you lol
That starting point kinda makes the rest of us the conservatives of the community.
It makes the rest of us the liberals, certainly. But a lot of the turf battles between .world and .ml tend to be on US political orthodoxy running up against any other country’s reported histories. People getting sucked back into the argument over whether the Hungarian Revolt of 1956 was worth defending, for instance, is the baseline for what defines a “Tankie” (evil Khruschevist authoritarian villains) versus “A rational centrist” (not all CIA-backed color revolutions are bad, people!)
So it’s less a question of right versus left and more a question of nationalism versus internationalism.
If you want to feel challenged, look into who we defederate from.
One of the benefits of .world is that admins generally don’t bother outright banning anyone for their political views, even when they’re taken as “extreme”. You can head over to these other sites, but don’t expect to post very long before you’re given the boot.
Admittedly, Reddit’s political subs were much the same. Easiest thing in the world is to say something on a political sub of any flavor that will get you banned, whether its /r/progressive or /r/libertarian. If that’s the kind of sub someone is looking for…
But I don’t really see them as challenging so much as insular. Structurally closed communities where appealing to the whims of the moderators is more important than any actual ideological tenant.
You can definitely call Marxism and Anarchism Left. Leftism starts at anti-Capitalism, and both Marxism and Anarchism make up the largest and most significant umbrellas of Leftism.
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That’s funnier than it is ironic and tragic, lol.
I had nothing to do with that, but this made me laugh
Too many overtly emotional blue haired folk in moderating positions there
I’d like to believe it was deleted as a bit, and not just because whoever read it felt it intensely, lol. (Also, déjà vu! I feel compelled by whatever is left of my superstition to call them out as they happen.)
They have all been chased off or banned mostly in response to and protection of this refuge for diversity.
Lemmy.usatoday or whatever is a conservative instance
I must admit I do miss r/conspiracy, the stupidity there was something to behold.
Lemmy.world leans right overall, so I’d say you’re already there. If you want far-right, there are very few areas on Lemmy, so you’d be better off peering into Reddit for that.
I might be able to show you, but what do you mean by conservative?
Like I said, I miss r/Conservative and r/conspiracy the most from reddit
Maybe I’ll find us a conspiracy little e-hole, I miss it too. 🥲
Plenty of conspiracy theorists on Lemmy just mention that Luigi Mangione killed Brian Thompson or Trump falling out with Elon Musk and they come out of the woodwork
Yeah but they’re mostly “sane” conspiracy folks. I miss the absolute bat shit insane ramblings from reddit haha
If you want to see unhinged shit just make a new tik tok account and look up the word adrenochrome. The algorithm will get you real quick.
There are probably plenty of right wing instances you’re not federated with, but now that mainstream social media has been overtlu taken over by fascists there’s not as much reason for it. When I first heard of Lemmy I remember there were a shit ton of far fight instances because that’s who was getting kicked off of reddit back then. Now, though, the owner of Twitter is straight up doing seig heils in front of crowds and you can get banned on reddit if you criticize him too much. So if you’re a conservative, why would you bother using a weird open source platform like Lemmy when the big dogs are all in complete agreement with your beliefs and all your heroes are on those platforms, especially when your ideology is based on hero worship?
TL;DR if you’re a right winger you’re just on the mainstream platforms or on an explicitly right wing alternative like Truth Social
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You can try Xitter.
