I should have specified, i was talking about classical liberalism. Social liberals are center-left to left wing.

The way i see it, the barebones definition of right wing and left wing is that leftism supports minimization, or abolishment of hierarchy, and equality, both class and social. You don't have to be 100% of all these points to be left wing, just a degree of it.

The right wing believes that hierarchies are natural, and inevitable, or even desirable. They believe inequality is natural, due to social differences. Most of them believe that authority is good (not exclusive to right wing politics, there are authoritarian leftist ideologies) with libertarians and ancaps being an exception.

Classical liberals believe in free market, and generally have negative views on social services, taxes, and such.

Social liberals believe in a mixed economy, and favour social services, and believe in social justice (also class equality, but not a huge talking point for them). I think this makes them center, and at most, center-left (See social democracy or the nordic model). What makes them different than socialists and communists is that they are not quite radical in comparison to them, socialists desire to minimize wealth inequality (and inequality in general. politically, socially, etc) as much as possible.

Another point that you brought up is private property. I think this is also a defining factor on why I think liberals tend to be more right leaning.

You can still believe in markets, and be far left. Socialism, is when the workers own the means of production. It's a pretty barebones definition, which makes it possible to have free markets, AND socialism. See Mutualism, Market Socialism, and Titoism

Seems that I am not as educated as you on liberalism. I focus more on socialist ideologies rather than liberalism or other ideologies, So I'll give this one to you.

Have a great weekend :)

Honestly, I can't understand why people like compact mode instead of cards. Then again, I've always been bad at handling multiple information at once. To each his own, i guess

As for the statistics, those came from my own bias, but I see there are a lot of people that love the old lemmy UI, so it's false. Sorry.

I'm pretty sure we agree at this point. My end point was that it is in the hands of the instance maintainers and Xylight (he has agreed) and that is what you are saying here, too.

Absolutely yes. Anarchists on reddit were largely only anarchist by name, and we don't even have a proper community here. And anarchist communities on instances such as lemmy.ml are even worse, to be honest. Most political representation on lemmy is for authoritarian leftists, where's the love for anarchy :(

Yeah, i think in general even the big communities aren't too active, but they are the most active. We aren't ready for niches and such. Such is the life of a lemming :(

Literally doesn't even matter what they call themselves. Russia and Iran are blatantly capitalist, authoritarian states yet they still support them, lmao. They're idiots, not even the useful type.

No, i wouldn't. I was saying that lemmy.blahaj.zone is a trans (and lgbtq in general) inclusive instance.

I must admit, i don't know much about the userbase, so i'm not immediately doubting that it could have issues, or outright transphobia. I was just pointing out that the user in the image immediately accused the OP and the instance in general of being transphobic, despite the instance literally being for trans/lgbt+ people.

Ah yes, the infamously transphobic instance, lemmy.blahaj.zone.

FYI for non saudis: you can be charged with terrorism for "apostasy", or "witchcraft", or "endangering the status quo" (criticizing or revolting against the royal family in any way). So high chance that many of the 45 executed for terrorism aren't even terrorists.

Oil truly is a curse.

Pathetic. Instead of the royal family investing their unimaginable wealth into the dumpsterfire of an education system, and the country as a whole, they do this fucking shit to fake looking developed, instead of actually improving the country. Why? because they can't stand the mere thought of giving up even an ounce of their wealth, even if it means countless will suffer, and die.

They are parasites, and shit like this is why we are one of the most embarrassing countries on the world stage.

dbzer0 is a pretty good instance. Sadly, there are no good leftist instances other than slrpnk and dbzer0.