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Looking to join a mastodon instance that is leftist in politics (lemmy.ml)
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I have a need to create a new account on mastodon, but I am not familiar with the different instances and servers.

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[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That implies US politics would be more left than German politics? Neither German nor US politics are "as left as it gets", so I'm not sure they are a great measure here.

It's a general purpose instance. Gargron may be left leaning, but I don't think he's into radical left politics?

There are instances with leftist statements in their about section, openly leftist teams and largely lefty/political local timelines.

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I was thinking more that their moderation team is mostly German and thus they’re very sensitive about German politics but less sensitive about other countries’ politics.

I got shadowbanned for life for mentioning not to blindly believe some statement about a “secret” report about the German right-wing party without seeing said report first. So that’s that.

[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Maybe I misunderstood what you meant with "as it gets"? I thought it basically means it"can't be more left because it's already maximum left" and I didn't see how that's supported by your experience.

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 days ago

Might be a language barrier as I’m not a native English speaker, yes. And I was referring to their moderation team. They seem to have no issues with extremist left stuff, but the moment you don’t display nothing but pure hate against something considered “right” (in the context of German politics) they get very trigger happy with the ban hammer.