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I'm wondering if communities like Lemmy will be any more open to other ways of thinking than reddit is. My politics align fairly well with the reddit political

I'm wondering if communities like Lemmy will be any more open to other ways of thinking than reddit is. My politics align fairly well with the reddit political stances, but when it doesn't line up exactly it's like I'm a far-right actual nazi or something. I'm hoping other communities will be more open to people actually thinking somewhat differently from themselves. I'm not holding my breath, though. I'm going to give Lemmy a shot and keep my head down and see how it works out. Realistically, I won't be leaving reddit until old.reddit.com goes away or my ad-blocker stops working.

DoktorDelta 3y ago
Because Lemmy is a federated service, you can run your own instance to cater to your specific political alignment. However, other instances can choose to block content from your instance from showing up on theirs. Likewise, you can ask to 'link' your instance to others with similar ideas/rules and share posts between both. As a result, the only thing stopping someone with particularly niche political views from spinning up their own instance is the potential lack of other interested users.