I'm not giving you my email address, so you lost a lot of points from me right away. I signed up with a fake email, and it appears this is a forum, with the go

I'm not giving you my email address, so you lost a lot of points from me right away. I signed up with a fake email, and it appears this is a forum, with the goal of having polite discussions about controversial topics. I think this is a worthy goal, perhaps one of the most important goals one could possibly have right now, but there are two unanswered and very important questions: 1. What do you consider "polite"? 2. How does that translate into action, i.e. what are you doing differently from other social media? At its core, this problem is tied to financing: conversation on existing social media is broken because they make money off ads. To serve ads successfully, you need to get engagement (which is best done by creating outrage) and you need to personalize (which is best done by violating privacy, and as a side effect, creates echo chambers). Since social media doesn't want to kill their ad profits, they're investing in censorship instead of addressing the core issue. Admittedly, the core issue is a very hard problem, but it won't be solved by ending free speech--that just creates a second wave of problems. Now the bigots that caused the outrage feel persecuted, so they run off and radicalize in their own echo chambers, and the rest of us are left with an echo chamber where authoritarians can throw the cancel hammer at innocent bystanders with impunity. The solution, if one exists, isn't going to come from the same amoral just-following-incentives swamp that created the problem in the first place. Starting with the trying to collect my email address for no reason sure makes it look like this is just another attempt to get a slice of the selling-ads-with-outrage pie. I hope I'm wrong!