> I guess Mastodon is better for you That fully depends on what instance the user is on, many Mastodon instances are quite happy to use the banhammer on anyone

> I guess Mastodon is better for you That fully depends on what instance the user is on, many Mastodon instances are quite happy to use the banhammer on anyone who strays from a desired narrative. You can run your own instance but will find that instance banned by those same ban-happy instances. The way many if not most instances are run unfortunately leads to a fractured universe of echo chambers. > I quite like Bluesky, its defaults appear to lead to civil behaviour. Only if by 'civil behaviour' you mean it limits dissent with the desired 'progressive' narrative. While it is quite possible to have a civil discussion on the fact that there are in fact only 2 sexes ('genders' is a term borrowed from linguistics, viz. 'gendered languages') such a discussion is not welcomed at BS nor on many Mastodon instances. I assume it is equally possible to have a civil discussion about the idea that there are 72 'genders' but such a discussion is not welcomed at most pre-X 'Twitter clones'. I don't think you'd be banned though, just lambasted and trolled. This is not based on experience since I do not have an account on any of these sites but on the idea that the pre-X crop of 'Twitter clones' was explicitly based on the premise that they did not censor or ban like Twitter did.