I don’t think of myself as less tolerant, but I’ve definitely become less patient with the qanon-level discourse that has come to dominate the reply section on twitter, which used to be a place for interesting conversation.
Maybe somebody being patient with them will change their mind, but that’s not what I want to spend my time online doing.
> I don’t think of myself as less tolerant
Most people don't think of themselves as [insert negative trait].
Re:Maybe Bluesky Has "Won"
by AtlasBarfed on Saturday November 16, 2024 @02:43AM
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Dude, we used to live in strictly segregated ghettos everywhere. If it wasn't ethnically divided, it was strictly segregated by class, and if that wasn't the division, it was religion.
The internet for a while was a big melting pot, probably because there was an inherent IQ filter to using the early/medium web.
But once the stupids came on, then came the stupid-manipulation companies chasing them, and everything went to hell.
Usenet was kind of like this too, until tools made usenet more accessible.
I've been too busy to look at Mastodon/Bluesky out of laziness. I never did Twitter. Mastodon may require some technical work to make use of, which may be a wonderful long term thing.
"B-but they believe these morally reprehensible things!" So what? Have we not all hurt people and been the villain in someone else's life? People get lost along the way. Show them grace. We can't force people into different ways of living, but we can show them.