To be more specific (If this even makes sense) I’m looking for an instance that leans more on the conservative side, but isn’t infested with politics.
I guess I’m looking for an instance that isn’t highly political. Even if it’s a conservative instance, I don’t really want to only see or have a politically dominated feed.
I’ve been on conservative instances way in the past, and that’s always been my issue with them. Obviously more left leaning instances have the same problem.
But I don’t want my lemmy experience to be majority about politics no matter what side it leans.
Any “conservative space” that exists usually fills up with conservatives saying the type of shit that would get them banned anywhere else.
I don’t think you’ll ever find what you’re looking for, but best of luck creating it and preventing it from devolving into what’s around currently.
why look for a space with a political lean if you don’t wanna see politics? plenty of spaces to talk about other topics
I’d just like to be able to talk about everyday stuff without someone complaining about capitalism.
And I’d just like to do everyday stuff without Capitalism ruining it!
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when they flock together they tend to get disruptive and toxic very quickly
Hmm, I wonder why that is?
The problem with “conservatives” is that they don’t really stand for anything. So they have to go into politics and culture war nonsense.
You’re not really going to find anything that’s conservative yet isn’t political because modern conservatism is fundamentally hollow by design.
You formed that opinion by talking to conservatives?
Yes.
You asked them “what do you stand for”, and they said “nothing really”?
No.
your fediverse experience is curated by your own subscriptions. unless youre doomscrollin’ /new you shouldnt see what you wouldnt want to see.
Conservatives: “Don’t talk about politics, I’m an independent”
Also conservatives: Brandon is censoring me! Jan 6 was peaceful!
What are some topics that you feel are conservative that are not related to politics?
What do you consider “politics”? Trying to reject people’s way of life and reduce their agency under the guise of “politics” is a common dogwhistle.
If you don’t want to have a politically dominated feed don’t subscribe to political communities.
The subscribed feed is there for a reason. To have your own curated feed of things you want to see and that is possible from any instance (given that the instance you are on isn’t defederated from a bunch of other instances that have most of the content you want to see)
To everyone downvoting: Stop downvoting well meaning questions because you think anyone using that word must be about taking a side in American politics.
There will always be people resistant to change. They should have a space to share their doubts in a healthy way without falling into the toxic sludge of “Conservativism” (which is often radically revolutionary btw)
And to answer the question: Your best bet is a mainstream instance, and not subscribing to anything related to politics. You won’t escape it completely, and you can’t avoid having your ideas challenged. But you can avoid name-calling and hostility related to election campaigns.
Thank you for being a voice of reason among all the noise.
I downvote because I like the color of the arrow 💙
Kinda surprised nobody has said this: start your own instance. Seriously, thats the power of the fediverse.
If you’re looking for something less overtly tankie, any instance other than hexbear or .ml to a lesser extent is probably okay. But I’d recommend just blocking the subs that have too much political stuff. I don’t think there’s a specifically conservative instance, since that isn’t really Lemmy’s demographic.
tankie
As in bullet sponges with huge HP bars, to draw the fire away from friendlies?
Good luck on your quest to find one (In earnest, because the rest of this response is going to sound rather mean).
When it comes to technology, conservatives suffer from a learning disability.
They’ll keep cooking up half-baked networks behind cloudflare, AWS, Google reCaptcha and other brain rot.
And even if they did manage to erect a proper fediverse instance, it would likely get walled of from the rest of the liberal dominated network using blocklists for being too “toxic”.
You should consider creating your own instance, and only letting in people who share your view after a careful vetting process, and then carefully curate your instance to make sure any users that get through the vetting process comply with your rules.
You’ll also probably want to populate it with content. You should really get started on this now if you want to get it to work.
Lemmy is part of the Fediverse. So by nature all (most) of the instances are interconnected, and you’re always exposed to all of the users and topics. An exception would be an instance that blocks other instances and doesn’t federate with the rest of the network. (Or just a select few other instances.)
I think Lemmy is quite full of politics. At least with news concerning politics. I also don’t really like it to lean towards that. But in the end it’s a link aggregator and lots of people use it to link some articles.
I’m not sure if you found the right spot here on/with Lemmy. I’d advise you to subscribe to topics you’re interested in, skip the news and political debate communities and focus on whatever you like. It shouldn’t really matter on which instance you do it. But if you find one that aligns with your idea of a nice place, you should support that and join them. I can’t point to any specific instances fulfilling your specific requirements. I’m not conservative myself. And I’m not from the USA so my categories are a bit different from lots of people here.
But you have to curate and choose your subscriptions. This isn’t any of the usual big tech social media networks that has lots of algorithms to sort posts for you and only display pleasing content to their users. Lemmy is a bit more free(?) and doesn’t lock the users into their individual filter bubble. And that’s part of it’s core design.
