You know, OP is doing me a real service by posting this thread. I'm just scrolling down and blocking nazis right and left.
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2026
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It's way past time to be reasonable about politics
Real life. If you want moderate, complex opinions. Talk to real people. Not the bots and shills that populate this place.
I largely use Lemmy because it doesn't tolerate conservatives.
It's 2026. There is no such thing as a moderate conservative. They don't deserve the benefit of the doubt. They don't deserve yet another platform to argue in bad faith on. They've gone too far. Every platform they touch turns into a cesspool of bigotry and garbage opinions they think should be taken seriously or they play victim.
I don't want them on Lemmy.
There is no such thing as a moderate conservative
IDK, I'd think most Democrats in Congress this decade are moderate conservatives (stupid Overton window shift).
i was confused at first when i saw moderate/ or reasonable conservatives. almost every conservative ive encountered just make uniformed rants or opinions about trump. my favorite is when they dont know about trumps actual policies and get defensive over being questioned about it,.
There are a lot of "bipartisan" social media websites (at least they self-advertise as such)
There are also social media apps for mainly conservatives.
Surely there can be one form of social media for leftists to talk to each other.
I enjoy reading anarchists and socialists debate their case because I actually agree with points they make. I can see where each side is coming from and even have change my viewpoints at times.
Some edgy highschooler on the side screaming about how "God wants capitalism" would not contribute anything to the conversation. We already established their ideas don't work, let us actually come up with new ones now.
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Nowadays reasonable is radical. Moderate isn't enough and conservative is poison
but not individual instances.
You can. If you're using a Lemmy home instance, as you are currently (lemmy.world), in the Web UI, go to your user menu in the upper-right corner, click "Settings", click the "Blocks" tab, and then you can choose instances to block in a panel there.
If what you want is "I don't want auth-left stuff", avoiding hexbear.net, lemmygrad.ml, and lemmy.ml can help. You aren't going to get some kind of ironclad avoidance, but that'll avoid the great bulk of it. Your home instance is lemmy.world. lemmy.world is defederated with lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net for exactly the reason you mention (in fact, I see people who don't like lemmy.world because they consider it liberal, which they don't like) so you already won't be seeing stuff from the first two instances.
I don't think I've personally seen fascist material on the Threadiverse (though there are some people with quite broad definitions of the term), though there are or were some far-right instances out there, based on defederation lists. Most of what little I've seen on the Fediverse seems to me to be on Pleroma, though I haven't spent much time on non-Threadiverse Fediverse stuff.
moderate conservative
The home instance that I use, lemmy.today, has one user (@DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today) that posts a bunch of Trump stuff and a conservative community, !conservative@lemmy.today. I don't know if your definition of conservative and his match up, but maybe you'd find it to your taste; it's probably the closest to mainstream US, Republican material that I've seen with much activity on the Threadiverse. The instance isn't going to be just moderate conservative and moderate liberal users though. But, if that's the kind of community that you might be participating in, I'd imagine that he'd like to have more users.
EDIT: My own personal take is that the long term solution to having people with disparate positions on what content they want to see, above-and-beyond use of moderated communities and admin activity on instances, is to have "curator lists", where people can basically "share" lists of blocks/subscribes/votes or something like that, and other users can subscribe to them. Then you have a list that
for example
excludes or includes content on various grounds without requiring effort on a per-user-who-wants-curated-content basis. I think that Usenet pretty much established that killfiles don't really scale well in combating spam and stuff like that, because there was never a mechanism to share killfiles among users. Anyway, today, there isn't support for something like that on the Threadiverse. I understand that BlueSky has something along those lines.
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Don't look for a specific moderate instance, instead block extremist instances. I'm not positive but I think that also blocks you from seeing posts by users of those instances even when they post to other instances, but I'm not 100% sure
You want an online community that allows both the right and the far right? That would be ALL OTHER ONLINE COMMUNITIES!
We came here specifically to get our own forum, where the centre left, regular left and far left are all allowed. This is a forum for the working class, not for the capitalists. And you capitalists can't handle the fact that us workers for once get to have a forum of our own.
Who said this is a forum for the working class? I have not seen this mentioned anywhere. Read the sidebar: this is a generic forum for everyone. I’m inclined to think you are making this up.
Why do you want people with extreme views (left or right) in your community?
(ive been told my writing style is a bit abrasive, but i got a touch of the tism', and that can effect the "cadence" of how i write. so take that into perspective when reading this inside your head. im not hostile.)
"Who said this is a forum for the working class?"
its implied, considering almost 99% of the worlds population needs to work to make a living and to support their loved ones who cant. and the vast majority of the people who post here arent billionaire oligarchs, or petty bourgeoisie. its statistically unlikely. therefor, fair to say.
"Why do you want people with extreme views (left or right) in your community?"
radicals are at the forefront of change in every conflict. for better, or for worse.
today (in the US) to be opposed to fascism, is to be considered a "far left terrorist" or ANTIFA. another boogeyman made by the fascists to scare people away from "socialism" or the "wokes" or some other nonsense.
the new modern definition of "far left extremism" is a dog whistle used by fascists trying to play the "both sides bad" or "innocent centrist" take that ultimately leads left leaning people and fence sitters further down the road of fascism, for those who take it at face value. overuse of the word "tankie" as well, which has been used as a blanket term for socialists/communists a lot more in recent days. but most people dont understand its roots, or the roots of socialism/communism, and how they have changed since their inception.
unfortunately, the reason so many "far left" voices appear here, is because platforms like reddit started banning people because they called out fascism, and began communicating on how they should stop it. or simply joking about it. i personally am one of those people, i said elon musk did a nazi salute, and was likely a nazi to some degree. and i was perma banned within minutes. for "violent" content. (it wasnt in the slightest) so here i am. and honestly its quite nice, people are more level headed, kind, and willing to discuss things thoughtfully. without the "gotchyas" and hostile armchair intellectualism that is so rampant on platforms like reddit.
this is a platform of the people, each instance essentially ran/hosted by volunteers. working class people, like you or me. thats the basis of the fediverse. anyone can spin up an instance, some bigger/better than others, and choose to link with all/certain instances. some instances can be honey pots, filled with bots, AI slop. or real human beings, making real connections. who knows. its crazy out here. still small, quiet. but growing, and getting louder.
the best thing about the fediverse, is that if you dont like an instance. you can leave it.
but if you dont leave quietly, its always a little bit sus as to your real motivations.
OP seems to be confusing people with a distaste for fascism/general knowledge of communism/socialism, and the history that birthed them, for actual "tankies"
a common mistake made by the misinformed, and a common tactic used by the misaligned.
but id rather not make those assumptions, and assume its coming from a purely anecdotal view/experience of the world that i havent seen reflected in my own use of lemmy.
regardless, at the end of the day, its not left vs right, its up vs down. and i think thats the bigger zeitgeist here on lemmy
sorry for the wall of text. i hope this helps provides a bit more context.
goes on communist website
built by communists that got kicked out of reddit
i like this, but what about all those communists???
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real moderate or usian moderate?
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