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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by INTPenis on Monday December 04, 2023 @02:00AM (#38514409)
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.

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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by kaffeeringe on Monday December 04, 2023 @02:25AM (#38514553)
What borders? Do you mean the basic rules of good behaviour?
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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by didntcheck on Monday December 04, 2023 @08:33AM (#38516974)
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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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by InCityDreams on Monday December 04, 2023 @04:51AM (#38515442)
>but twitter threw everyone into one big melting pot.

Threw everyone using twitter into one big melting pot.

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