Are you talking about Mr "everyone who doesn't agree with me is literally evil", or about me? If it's about me, I'm kinda flattered since it would be my first time getting called a Russian troll lol.
JGrffn
joined 1 year ago
I mean that marks a stark point of acceleration for sure, but the division has been going on for a lot longer. All my US relatives have been glued to fox news for at least the past decade. My mom goes to visit them (we are from Honduras)and comes back spouting absolute nonsense, when I ask her why, the tv is always on with fox news, it's all they watch.
Before they all left Honduras in the 80s and 90s, they were left leaning, all of them. Now they aren't only right leaning, but radicalized and sound insane when talking. This "against the right" or whatever dude sounds actually just like them, but from the left. I don't feel comfortable sitting here feeling like the same that's happened to them is happening to us. Well, "us" considering I'm not from the US...
It's suffering from being new and different. If it can hang on long enough for Reddit to go full Facebook, maybe it can hit a stride and prosper but I honestly don't know.
I'm starting to lose faith, but we'll see in the long run once Meta enables federation. It may be bad for the fediverse, or it could force unprecedented growth. My main fear is that activitypub ends up the way of e-mail, regulated by the big players. I'm too dumb to figure out if it can happen, though.
I'm not disagreeing with you, just very annoyed that if you don't absolutely demonize the other side, you get downvoted, which you did and you were. That's not what a healthy community does.