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The Fediverse is great - everybody is segregating into their little private areas. I for one can’t stand woke people and especially the leftie-commie people, an
by Jkvngt 6y ago
The Fediverse is great - everybody is segregating into their little private areas. I for one can’t stand woke people and especially the leftie-commie people, and there are servers which they steer clear of.
There is absolutely no reason to subject yourself to the company of people who you disagree with.
- vorticalbox 6y agoto challenge your world views and grow as person? Yes i know some people with differing views can be arseholes but that should not stop you from putting your world views up to the test by having a discussions with the opposing side.
- Jkvngt 6y agoI don’t expose any information about myself online, especially to lefties, who knows what innocent remark will be cancel fodder in a week or two. I don’t need to be wheedled or badgered for not being aware of the latest trend, or for bucking it. For example, I don’t do pronouns. I don’t care what people want to be called, it’s an imposition on me. This right here is enough to get you added to the list at Google, for example.
- zaarn 6y agoyou can challenge your world views and grow as a person without exposing yourself to toxicity or horrible people.
- adingus 6y agoI don't understand why we have to "challenge our world views and grow as a person" when it comes to social media. What if I want to just join a server to talk about old cars, or gardening or some other hobby in a casual fashion? I don't always want to see or hear about social issues or politic... and that goes for issues I agree and disagree with.
- disposekinetics 6y agoMastodon has enabled an escape from the constant "Everything is political" and "Everything has to be about my cause" that has engulfed our culture. I think that is wonderful.
- glenvdb 6y agoIs this sarcasm? It's difficult to tell sometimes... But one good reason for having discussions with people you disagree with is that you get to see things from a different perspective and maybe learn something too. Depends what you're disagreeing about and whether all parties want to have a discussion in good faith, which seems to be in shorter supply these days. Otherwise we just stay in our bubbles and enjoy the echo?
- Jkvngt 6y agoI’d prefer not. I can get information on all the newest trends and thinks by opening any one of the now nearly identically policed social media sites, news aggregators, and video sharing sites, if I wish. But I don’t wish.
- Bigpet 6y agoI'm never going to get tired of posting it this codec call from the end of MGS2: "In the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible. Rumors about petty issues, misinterpretations, slander. All this junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate. It will only slow down social progress, reduce the rate of evolution. The digital society furthers human flaws, and selectively rewards development of half-truths." "Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid of a larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds, leaking whatever "truth" suits them into the growing cesspool of society at large. The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No one is invalidated, but nobody is right. Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in "truth." And this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper." Not that it's 100% applicable. But it's interesting to see this from a game released in the year 2001.