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Is Lemmy community nice to new users? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by Cattail@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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New to Lemmy and I quit reddit years ago and I remembered that r/conservatives was hostile to me for voicing my politics certain other subreddit made fun of me if I was wrong. I'm newish to the fediverse. I'm digging mastodon even though I never did Twitter

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

both .world and lemm.ee are conservative enough for each one to have their own thriving conservative sub communities; i doubt op would get down votes from them.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Man, that must be tough for them. Lemmings run between solidly Democrat and contemplating critical support for Pol-Pot.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

democrats are politically center-right for in the entire western world, so it's not at all a stretch to be conservative, religious, and democrat all at the same time.

the way i've politically sparred with them on lemmy proves to me that this is what most of the people of .world and .ee are like; status-quo americans.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

so it’s not at all a stretch to be conservative, religious, and democrat all at the same time.

Yes. That's a lot of older African-Americans, from what I've heard. Church every Sunday, but they'd chew off their own leg before they vote Trump.

My impression is that the average .world user is a progressive. Some stray towards centrism, some are communist. The Pol-Pot post I saw was on Hexbear.

IRL, well, you know.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago

as i said earlier, .world is center-right; i don't get any sense of progressiveness from them.

they might be progressive compared to republicans, but not compared to your average western european or latin american or canadian; aka the western world.