As I’ve used Lemmy, I’ve discovered just how politically charged it can be. This is likely just due to the nature of the software and the types of people that tend to care about it, but I’d like to avoid associating with radicals, both left and right. As such, I want to make a new account on a new general-purpose instance. I can speak German, so I was thinking feddit.org or lemmy.at, but I know nothing about them. What do you suggest?
Reality isn’t politically neutral. Most niche communities are pretty apolitical but if you want to interact with news communities you’ll be out of luck.
The idea of “political neutrality” is naive or bad faith.
What you want is a right-wing sub. They pride themselves on being centrist, reasonable, and uncontroversial. You’re going to get lots of radical ideology, but don’t take it seriously bro, it’s just a joke.
Left subs may seem obnoxious with their politics, but that’s just because we’re trying to persuade you with argument instead of tricking you with flattery.
By politically neutral they could just mean a place that doesn’t have to introduce politics into everything
feddit.org is a good choice, folks over there are pretty moderate. However as Lemmy is federated, you will still interact with extremist instances and their users such as hexbear.net or lemmy.ml, if your instance does not defederate.
You will learn fast which communities to avoid, just block then and mind your own business.
Other comments make a point though questioning your concept of left/right.
Maybe Facebook, since they can’t federate with Lemmy instances. But avoid tiktok because it’ll learn what you like and show you political stuff anyway.