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!
Maybe because the liberals are still people who deserve some rights as the promoted ones by Free Software?
Some other people could also have fell in an ending loop towards Reddit interaction and common nonFLOSS media because of some people they follow.
Edit:
Clarifying to avoid any misunderstanding with the first parragraph: I disagree with them and I don’t tolerate what they do and what they promote but that doesn’t mean that I am going to remove their rights as individuals.
Fair enough
I can also argue that they can adapt or fuck off, since basically all the internet is their own echo chamber, for fuck’s sake. It’s like when a bunch of religious go to an antitheist or religion traumatic syndrome recovery group and complain that “it has too much aggression towards beliefs that have harmed them!” when the majority of people is a believer in some spiritual sect, wtf.