Whenever I see complaints like these, purposefully vague about what kind of "exteme views" they have a problem with, I have to think of this meme
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There it is! That’s the meme!
If Lemmy is extreme leftist, this person is likely to be conservative or they keep stumbling into Grad and think that’s the whole platform.
I tend to lean towards ineptitude in this case though.
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I think a lot of these people fail to realize that they aren't Fediverse material isn't because it's "complicated" or "filled with linux nerds". No, it's because they are the people the Fediverse was created to escape, fascist right-wing extremists. It is more than natural they wouldn't fit in here because that ideology isn't compatible with the federated space and working together, if it was why didn't those people build their own fediverse? I mean they tried, but not so they could connect their sites together and interoperate, only so they could try and take over our spaces, so they could try and force their messages onto us. When we blocked them and plugged our ears they gave up on Federation like that.
So it's best to not worry too much about getting these people to join here, but rather debunking any arguments they may have against federation and its viability. The end goal isn't to get EVERYONE* to join the Fediverse, it's to get left leaning people and normies to while leaving all the extremists behind. At a point platforms like Reddit and Twitter become as insufferable as Gab or TruthSocial and the only real people there are the alt-right people.
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Where are the centrist and right leaning spaces? As far as I can tell, they’re almost completely empty.
You're in it, buddy.
Also:
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thanks mods 
thanks mods
I just woke up, 139 comments and 4 reports on this thread for me to go through. 🫠
Poor Nazi. Hopefully they felt really unwelcome and unsafe.
I was going to question what makes you think they're far right but
If their experience is anything like mine, it’s populated by mostly far left wing Americans who were banned from Reddit for being too extreme.
Where are the centrist and right leaning spaces? As far as I can tell, they’re almost completely empty.
I agree, Reddit is massively extreme left politic trolls. The ones that have left reddit for lemmy because of corporealism is even further down that rabbit hole. Honestly social media is just a political psyop at this point.
😐 God, i remember why i left reddit now. It's just a circlejerk of racists thinking they're "progressive"
Where are the centrist and right leaning spaces? As far as I can tell, they’re almost completely empty.
haha oh no what a shame
"Social democracy is the moderate wing of fascism" - Happybadger, 2025
They didn't specify Hexbear or Lemmygrad by name which is the normal course for a radlib from somewhere like lemmy.world when they're making this kind of post. That to me says they didn't join an instance like mine where there's an actual culture of left purity testing. I can all but guarantee they joined lemmy.ml, .world, or one of the other instances that are about as liberal as bluesky and actively recruited during the IPO-era reddit exodus. Reddit is so obscenely reactionary/libertarian that they'd be culture shocked by a lemmy instance where they can't openly say the most antisocial thing you've heard this week and get a little trophy for it.
If anyone says that the general fediverse feed is too radical for them, it's on them to disprove they're a Nazi. They might not even consciously consider themselves a Nazi, but they're going down some pewdiepipeline. The general fediverse feed, and most of the content you'd see on an explicitly radical instance like mine, is so benign if not milquetoast liberal that you shouldn't feel this kind of opposition to it. Nothing about the instances I generally disagree with would make me want to go back to reddit on a new account. To feel ideological solidarity with 
but not any part of the fediverse is a huge red flag.
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Hell yeah. I’ll be pretty hostile towards magats
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