Stop contributions to mass surveillance? Regain actual connections and news over slop? Being free to communicate without the watchful eye of the tech oligarchs?
Platforms such as Lemmy and Mastodon should be more popular than ever, and yet people only see the “crazy left” forming a critical mass of the user base to the point where unofficlal “rules of condct” become stricter than the oligarchs. We need people to stop purity testing and using algospeak to showcase why moving to Lemmy/Mastodon is a defensive move for free speech.
This applies in real life too - not just social media platforms. The extremists of your own side are often far more damaging to your cause than the ones on the other side of the aisle. It’s the loud minority keeping everyone else a hostage. I’d even go as far as to claim that much of the success of “the right” can be explained by the failures of “the left.”
Interestingly, a similar thing is happening with pride. I know lots of other gay guys who want nothing to do with them simply because just being gay is no longer enough to be accepted into the group. No - you have to sign off on a big laundry list of other completely unrelated stances and if you don’t, you’re effectively straight and also fascist.
The right has much less of an issue with me being gay than the left has with me not agreeing with (insert any far left grievance). It’s just one of the many examples of how it’s not that men are being pulled towards the right but rather being pushed there.