Making waves just because you feel it's your right to do so can work, but it doesn't have to, and you can't complain if it doesn't. Nobody wants to have some narrative forced upon them, regardless the content.
Stick to the politics communities to post about politics, humor for humor, etc.
If that would be wrong, why would we have such things as "communities" (in the Lemmy sense) anyways?
Goddess Terrace Cafe might fit.
Was nationalism ever awesome? From an outside perspective it was quite disturbing and worrying.
Don't know what you're comparing us with, but we're just not that into that whole normative narrative kind of thing.
I'm other words: it's fine, even if we'd be like that.
They're monkeys, give em some slack.
We need more instances, not bigger ones. Sync should try to promote smaller ones, or even host their own.
It's not impossible to ruin, just a lot harder.
Put up a yearly donation drive (like Wikipedia) but unlike Wikipedia do:
Ideally the donations will be handled through a non-profit org dedicated to this particular purpose. If the donation level is high enough, developers can be hired to further improve the source code. Currently the funds are managed through OpenCollective, but with enough growth this may not be feasible any longer.
This will most likely lead to heated debates as this will build a somewhat centralized organization, which necessarily comes with power concentration.
Moderation will probably be done by AI in the future. It's probably just a bit too expensive still.