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This is exactly what's happening. I never thought I'd make a positive comparison to twitter but twitter threw everyone into one big melting pot. People could block each other but by default they had to listen to a lot of differing opinions before they blocked anyone.

In fedi borders are being drawn and they're creating these little bubbles of opinions. So you know that within your border your opinion will never be challenged because the admin already took care of that for you.

If I were to find any glimmer of hope in that it would be that certain instances will be more inclusive and perhaps some borders will be drawn around that, but I'm not sure.

I actually ran a node since 2017 but left in 2022 because of this very reason.




>but twitter threw everyone into one big melting pot.

Threw everyone using twitter into one big melting pot.


What borders? Do you mean the basic rules of good behaviour?


No. Specific rules of political purity, and the transitive demand that you also cut off any nonbelievers lest ye be branded yourself




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