We’re getting on well with Lemmygrad and I think we’re doing okay with Lemmy.ml

There’s a profound difference in world view between what we’re doing and most of the rest of the world. There aren’t a lot of hard line left anglophones running around, and the ones who are usually aren’t extradordinarily online assholes. Our culture was going to class enormously with the average liberal Democrat voter and most of their ideological fellow travellers.

I think federation is a good idea, but you need each instance to be very roughly speaking similar languages and having similar views about the world, at least to to the point where you can have discussions without immediately flame wars breaking out. That’s a hard sell between hard line leftists and libs right now because we’ve got a pretty solid theory for why things suck, whereas libs can’t understand why most things suck while still being libs. They have to continue to believe in the institutions and the constitution and the democrats and all that shit, or their woldview collapses. We know that their worldview is bullshit. So it’s hard to have any kind of conversation about any concrete topics before a leftist says “Actually things suck because neoliberalism and democrat leadership” and then a liberal’s head explodes.