Update: I got banned from hexbear and grad lmao

    • snekmuffin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      the thing about hexbear isn’t just that they’re far left, but that they are violently auth-left, and live in a huge echo-chamber, as most instances defederated from them. plenty of far left people are actually very grounded and human compared to them, see slrpnk.net and the an-soc instances. while they have strong opinions, they won’t immediately wish death upon you if your views clash

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          3 months ago

          yeah, I definitely agree there, not to mention that “authoritarian left” is self contradicting to begin with. It’s a pretty direct two-word description though, I find, and better than just calling them “tankies” which is even more vague

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          3 months ago

          Let me rephrase, is there anywhere that isn’t a circlejerk in either direction? I came here hoping it would be like Reddit pre 2016 where most of the main subs would at least have discussion and debate in the comments and not just a bunch of people blindly agreeing with each other.

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            3 months ago

            Tbh, no. The conservative instances immediately devolved into racism and jingoism. The rest of the instances are at least pretty far left of the population as a whole (e.g. world), terminally online leftists, or tankies.

            If you want someplace where politics don’t get mentioned in every thread, Mastodon with your own follows picked is the best choice.

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        3 months ago

        They were a few initially but they got chased off the fediverse. I’ve found SJW is very impartial.