Technologists seem to have hopeless, irredeemable optimism that "just a bit more tech" will solve social problems. I think Musk's removal of the tech underpinni

Technologists seem to have hopeless, irredeemable optimism that "just a bit more tech" will solve social problems. I think Musk's removal of the tech underpinnings of X was perhaps the counter-example which proves "not enouch tech" creates problems, but I do think "it's nice here so it will go on being nice here" is latent in how people talk about Bluesky, Mastodon, all the "other" socials. People love to kibbitz about HN, and it is maybe clique-y but at the same time it's not just one or two people reminding everyone "be nice" -pretty well anyone can do it, and they do. Maybe there's some threshold level where that kind of self-policed experience dies against the tides. I don't think being less censor-y is a good idea. I know thats hugely unpopular with a massive cohort of people. I don't for a minute pretend its defensible against a reductionist hard-core free-speech view of the world. I just think it turns out living in a completely-free speech world is tiresome. Some restraint turns out to be more than just "be nice" to be effective. "be nice: or else" basically. But "or else" means you're in a permitted space, not an unconstrained space.