I think even US citizens are tired of it at this point. Small shout-out to !AskUSA@discuss.online

The Fediverse (and FOSS in general) is inherently (radically) political simply by the nature of it’s construction and organization. That said I think it’s important to stress to new users that one’s experience can be curated to the degree that normal social media cannot.

Until someone open-sources TikToks algorithm, the Fediverse cannot compete on entertainment value, what it competes on is quality and intentionality. I think it’s important we put that talking point front and center. We don’t need to convince the users who just want to scroll memes (even though this post is literall r/memes haha).

This makes me think of a Reddit thread about how annoying it is to be constantly surrounded by US topics as a non-American on Reddit. Half the comments were ‘you’re on an American site! You’re so entitled! What the hell are you expecting?’

If I understand correctly, lemmy.world is the largest Lemmy instance and is registered in the Netherlands, so what’s the excuse now?

But to temper my words a bit, I get we have a big American user base. I’d just like them to not treat Lemmy as an American community.

I’m American and I’ve completely blocked many political words because that was all of the posts I was seeing. Turns out that is the majority of the posts and lemmy really doesn’t have much besides politics on it

imo centrists shouldn’t be shocked that the people literally working and laboring to go against censorship (all of the human hours gone into specs, implementations, community building etc etc) because of their radical views fosters those with similar views. Both left and right mind you. Member voat? How many of them you think are on those popular right wing fediverse networks I won’t name? I’m one of those extreme leftists (I just go by anarchist or socialist), but I remember when Reddit was banning right wing subreddits and was met with cheers by liberals.

Like it or not, far left and right are here in the fediverse and won’t leave because they are the ones who it’s built by and for, for better or worse. If we want the fediverse to succeed, it needs quality moderation/safety/anti-spam tools and protocols so people can filter out the stuff they deem uninterested in or something somehow equivalent.

This is the Wild West era right now. If the fediverse can survive for a decade, it might go the way of Blender and Godot, with a publicly accountable non profit foundation and all etc. Or it might go the way of gopher.

Thank you!