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It’s one thing to have differing views, but I’ve seen enough attempted reddit migrations to be relieved that the popular communities in the fediverse so far haven’t been about crazy racist stuff or other extreme right bullshit.

I am also glad that I’m getting away from reddit’s general political shitposting, which was more left leaning. You couldn’t have any proper discourse on there, and even I with my generally more left leaning views recognized that.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will fully admit that I went to some of those alternatives, and left because I'm just not interested in seeing extreme hate for people I don't actually hate.

I think the difference right now is that the people being driven off of Twitter aren't just the lunatic fringe, it's a lot of normal people.

Tmi, but when I was young my parents got a divorce, and so I end up in a situation where I was walking on eggshells because if I said the wrong thing to either one of them it would cause a civil war and I would have to deal with consequences of that. I ended up constantly watching every single word that I said, and it was really bad for me. It wasn't until much later on in life that I realized that I could open up to people and I wouldn't get in trouble when they saw who I was. For that reason, I'm extremely sensitive to free speech issues. Not because I want to go off and hate on anyone, but because I'm here to explore ideas, and sometimes when you're exploring ideas you have to step away from the orthodoxy. I don't want to go back to those days where I was carefully calculating every word to make sure I didn't piss somebody off and start a civil war.

On the other hand, a lot of the people who left don't have my story, and they left because they weren't able to talk shit about Jews anymore. And because of that, not only did freedom of speech get a bad name but those websites weren't really very nice to be on. If you're being totally honest, you ended up with the exact same problem because instead of watching out if you are starting to criticize a minority, you have to start watching out if you are about to praise a minority. The world is a complicated place you might have to do both you, you know?

So I think it's a good thing that finally the spaces are starting to get filled up by people who yearn for freedom, not so they can be a jerk but because they just want to be free to be themselves and to do so using the tools that they desire.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm so happy you're here 😭