Well again, I never said anti-facist was too radical for me. With all due respect, I think you're a little too quick to label people 'far right'. I agree with your sentiment, I agree and absolutely would consider myself and any sane person antifa; my only disagreement is with how hard political views are pushed here. I want lemmy to succeed and I know that even if they agree with the views presented here, pontential users could be turned off by how zealous it comes off sometimes.
Dargoth
joined 4 years ago
I never said or implied that. This trend of assuming anyone who disagrees with you is 'far right' or 'alt-right' helps nothing. Also curious is how all of my comments in this thread suddenly have 1 more downvote than a few hours ago before you replied. Probably just chance.
That aside, I actually agree with the views here, I just don't like being beaten over the head with it platform-wide.
You're right, being against fascism isn't 'too much politics'. However, "This is an antifa instance" being the first thing on the front page of the instance certainly is. It shows that the admin's political stance is important enough to them that it's the first thing they want everyone seeing. Between this, the AMA on reddit, and across the instances, the dev's political leanings seem to be inserted wherever and whenever possible.
Nothing's wrong with politics. Hell, I even share very similar views to those here, I just think that kind of discussion is better suited to a politics-based community, and not as multiple posts plastered on the front page.
Well not plastering it on the front page of the instance is a good start.
This kind of stuff is why some people left reddit.
Same, it's easier to jump into than opening a browser and navigating via bookmark or typing.