> we've been creating safe spaces for the last 5,000 years

Seriously? If you look into history books or even recent news articles, you'll quickly find out that safety is a rare privilege.

> You might want to look up this thing called "civilization"

How about this thing called "inequality and oppression?"

Well, GP seems to have edited their comment to flip its meaning 180°; earlier, IIRC (don't have a cached copy up) they were advocating for establishment of "safe spaces" of the kind that people who use term "safe spaces" establish - which for everyone else are more like digital equivalent of Lebensraum[0].

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum

Uh, no, I did no such thing.

I meant mozman's reply to your comment, not your comment.

And I'm absolutely in agreement with yours - I've seen this playing out on Mastodon first-hand. The federated model, as implemented by Fediverse, turns out to be extremely vulnerable to bullies.

(Kind of like a bunch of independent, friendly villages end up being vulnerable to a smart warlord. It's arguably a big part of what historically drove creation of countries and empires.)

FWIW, I’ve only seen that version of their comment, so if they edited it, it was very quickly.

I did not edit anything.

HM is heavily moderated but there's still plenty of toxicity - it just requires more energy and cleverness to emit.