If you want somewhere that definitely isn’t a liberal echo chamber there is always Lemmygrad. It’s so much not a liberal echo chamber that a lot of liberal instances have them blocked. It’s also awesome.

I think you don’t understand the term liberal properly though.

I only found firefish the other day but 'like Mastodon but cool" is a perfect way to describe it.

I prefer a lower rate of posts, it allows subscriptions to more niche communities. One of the worst things about Reddit was if you subscribed to any sub with more than 100000 members it would flood out any smaller subs, which were normally much better content wise.

Plus with a lower rate of posts, each one can receive more attention for the community. Comments can, and have, run for days on Lemmy, something that generally only happened in mega threads on Reddit.

We don’t need growth for growths sake. It is part of the reason I find the arguments for federating with Threads so weak.

While Papers Please is very good, it has more in common with nations in a post-soviet balkanisation than a communist nation. The banality is very present in modern western government as well, and the inability to afford medicine for your child is something that is ripped straight from the modern USA. It is a great approximation of what people imagine due to media conditioning, and that makes it very easy to role-play within the game and really enjoy it.

All in all, amazing game, amazing soundtrack, not really indicative.

Workers and Resources is an interesting one. It focuses on the material reality of running a planned economy without internal money supplies. Also a very good city/industry builder.