Thinks… Well, one side generally annoy me more than the other side.

I can generally be around right wingers longer than left wingers and traditionally the right have been more tolerant of libertarians like myself, so I guess maybe.

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?

You just triggered my PTSD

Oh, fuck that. I’m so tired of that shit.

I’m not pro- or anti- either side, but the_donald were dicks.

I don’t tote anyone around. I just got here. My experience is from Mastodon - I have some good friends on shithole servers - granted it’s like 2% of the server and the rest are fuckwits, but I’m glad I know them and have the power to block the rest.

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?

Yeah you know what? I’ve had enough of fundies, I’ll leave that thought there.

Long time Fedi user, first time Lemmy user here.

Defederation is one of the reasons society is so fractured now. We can’t talk to our enemies, so we can’t bring them round with compassion and logic. We just cut them out and they spiral into a more hateful and extreme version of themselves.

Obligatory post:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/18/daryl-davis-black-musician-who-converts-ku-klux-klan-members

ELI5 (because I signed up about an hour ago) - what’s wrong with the Exploding Heads instance? I thought about joining up because I suffer from Exploding Head Syndrome (really)