Cowbee
It's not that complicated, go to an instance and sign up.
What actually dominates Lemmy are groups of people that value bottom-up organizational structures, decentralization, FOSS, and other general structural decisions made with creating Lemmy. This leaves people that like these principles, and actually care enough to move to an instance despite mass adoption of a more top-down, Capitalist site like Reddit.
What, exactly, could be done to make it appeal to non-leftists, structurally? Addition of advertisers? Lol.
It was founded by a Communist, and decentralization appeals to leftists. The non-Communist lemmy is Reddit, basically, or making your own instance or finding an anti-Communist instance.
Yep! Great points!
Another big point is that it's a rejection of the profit motive, ie there's not even a "small business" feeling like you say for me, but a far more genuine feeling. Nobody has tried to sell me anything here yet.
I don't think its easy, or reasonable. Part of my point is specifically that it's unattainable for most.
Yes.
Unfortunately. I can't hit it either, trying my best.
Yep, I can't make it myself either. I just shoot for it when I can.
Yes, but not in the same sense of "government sponsored bot propaganda," and in the same sense as News and Worldnews are propaganda.
Hexbear is made up of users that genuinely seem to believe in their ideologies, rather than being sponsored by some state like others have implied.
Just like all of Lemmy.
The simple answer is that Communism does not in fact rely on everyone being perfect and unselfish. The complicated answer is telling you to go read Communist theory.
Why do you hold the belief that Communisn requires everyone be perfect and unselfish to function any more than Capitalism does? Can you describe the principle or structure that leads you to believe this?