>how to persuade people to see news etc outside their usual fare I'm not sure, but you actually need a place where people COULD see viewpoints outside the usual

>how to persuade people to see news etc outside their usual fare I'm not sure, but you actually need a place where people COULD see viewpoints outside the usual before those interested can go there. An example of this working was the Slatestarcodex Culture War thread and its successor, The Motte. https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread... It turns out that there's a sizeable contingent of people who do want to talk to people on the other side, and if you build it, they will come- and be surprisingly civil to each other, given you might expect them to assault each other on the streets in other circumstances. Of course, as mentioned in the above article, one problem with building a space where people can talk civilly about their differences is that you end up talking civilly to unpalatable folks, and people on the outside really don't like that and will try to destroy you- even if what you're seeing here, people de-escalating by talking to each other, is a miracle in the making. The culture war and the Motte have problems, of course. I'd just like to see a Cambrian explosion of spaces with a similar ethos, to explore the design space.