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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • First of all, good conversation. I’m enjoying it.

    I’ve been around almost five decades, and I can say without a doubt that yes, there are and have always been divisions in society, but not this segregation into hate camps that exists now. Not on this scale - previously, only extremists would be so disconnected from society. Now, we drive them into their safe spaces.

    Even milquetoast blue and red flag wavers are shooting each other regularly where before there would be some mild eye-rolling, and this coincided with the rise of social media, which, as you say, has always been segregated.

    Understanding and moderation comes with only one thing - compassionate discourse. You can’t do that if you block ban entire segments of the community.

    Did you read the article I linked? What are your thoughts?





  • So I see where you’re coming from, and it’s a valid point.

    There’s a but here though.

    Point 1: Corpo soshuls don’t connect you to everyone. They have very specific rules that they abuse to ban people with inconvenient (and admittedly sometimes schizophrenic) beliefs.

    Point 2: As a user, you can block somebody (or should be able to block) anyone you find distasteful or upsetting. why would you want someone else to make that decision for you by blocking a whole instance? Don’t you want that control?