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Lemmy.ml has long had some political conflict among the userbase, especially in communities like worldnews. This is because the instance is composed of both leftists (anarchist/communist) and liberals (those who agree with the mainstream political views in western countries). Additionally, the instance admins all belong to the former group.

Recently we made an announcement offering free Lemmy instance hosting for one year, for non-politics instances. We are hereby making a similar offer to host a liberal or mainstream political instance, which can accomodate those who are unhappy with lemmy.ml moderation.

This has many advantages. Instance admins have full power to set the rules, block federated instances (like lemmygrad.ml), or remove unwanted content. An administration team that is closer aligned politically would certainly be an improvement for some of the users here.

So if you are interested to host such an instance, send an email to contact@join-lemmy.org some relevant details about yourself. You will also have to buy a domain. We will only host one such instance, so if multiple people are interested, you should coordinate among yourselves. As in the original offer, the hosting will be limited to one year.

On a side note, we would also like to help with the creation of a general-purpose instance that is less focused on politics than most of the existing instances. This is fully within the terms of the initial "free instance hosting" announcement, so if you are interested, send us an email!

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[–] FruitFactory@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I second this. As long they're not right wing, I don't think we should be overly concerned with ideological purity.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

But that's already an ideological purity test. One which excludes a huge chunk of the population of most countries.

[–] FruitFactory@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yes but Lemmy.ml is explicitly leftist. I accepted that some level of gate-keeping was to be expected. I just don't see the removal of "libs" to be a necessary part of that.

Simply because this Instance is for leftists doesn't mean "leftist" needs to be defined narrowly.

That's my two-cents anyways.

[–] VictimOfReligion@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Libs are as right winged as Cons, mind you.