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So I’ve tried Mastodon, Pixelfed and didn’t like them. Mastodon is nice if you wanna ”tweet”, but that’s not for me. Pixelfed was dead.

I quit Meta because of tech bro fascism, and hated Twitter even before it was X because, let’s face it - nobody has ever changed their opinion on anything because of a Twitter conversation (I know I’m exaggerating, to get my point across). I was in Reddit for a few weeks, and the conversations there seem mostly friendly and constructive, but I decided I don’t want to have anything to do with social media corporations. Besides, I noticed I could scroll endlessly. And that’s not good for me.

Lemmy seems nice. There are still some topics I’m interested in that don’t have active communities, and I’m still learning on how to have my feed from multiple instances. But still, this is the way to go for me.

Against algorithms, against fascism, for free internet. Thanks for coming to my boring Ted talk and have a nice day.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (41 children)

Liberals are socially leftist. LGBTQ stuff, women empowerment, environment stuff, pro universal healthcare, ...

Personally I view american politics as right wingers compared to west Europe, but oh well.

They still are viewed as a hundred million people on this planet that vote for the left side of their country's politicians.

It's not that easy with USA. Bernie Sanders is likely the most left wing there. AOC likely the same.

Joe Biden was less left wing, but he still helped people out during the pandemic compared to what republican's would have done.

Here in Belgium you have more choice. You can choose between anti immigration, regionalists, liberals, Christian centrists, environmentalists, social democrats and Marxists.

Broader choice. Here in Belgium the left wing is considered environmentalists, social democrats and Marxists.

While liberals, although socially left wing, are economically right wing. Basically the party for the small entrepreneurs. The other right wing party is more for the multinationals. While the anti immigration party actually is quite socialist economically, but the same old "own people first" shit. It just so happens that being a conservative in Belgium means being somewhat of a socialist economically.

Pretty funny, there's not much difference between extreme right and extreme left here. Basically just.. is the socialist a racist or not lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (37 children)

Liberals are socially leftist. LGBTQ stuff, women empowerment, environment stuff, pro universal healthcare, …

Until the second it becomes evident that they might have to stand up for any of that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (36 children)

Nah, America really spread a lot of information throughout the world on these things. So much even that people got sick of it.

America is all about branding, sure they might not structurally provide a good system for these people, but they do grant them a good brand to use.

The public opinion of these people have mooned quite a bit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If your own child was on the LGBT+ spectrum and was right now in the US, your take would have been way different.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'm pro Europe on all fronts. I think we're better. So I agree lol.

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