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@tyil@fedi.tyil.nl @mgifford@mastodon.social putting it into that light sure I can see your point. I have certainly had my fair share of instance hopping as well in attempt to find one that fits me. I ran my own at one point, got quite a bit of backlash due to not seeing need to moderate what I consider to be free speech. I do truly wonder how many instances, of the many are blocking so aggressively? it seems that a lot tend to cave under the pressure to moderate "unpopular opinions", at least a couple years ago when I last tried to get into fedi.
Another thing I've failed to see is someone confront a "racist" with actual questions and discourse that lead to further understanding of each other, and possible resolve, rather than leading to personal attacks and threats to "defederate". I certainly understand that some people cannot be reasoned with but I think, much like when I am wrong about something, that many opinions are based on ignorance and lack of understanding. I think that ignorance can absolutely be fixed and resolved just through civil discourse where personal feelings are set aside to create a welcoming atmosphere of actual deeper understanding.
From what I seen X tries to be that but instead of sticking around to try it seems that most people have just left the platform to the point it has become en echo chamber for the ignorant rather than a place for discourse that promotes the change necessary to break our people free from the shackles which divide us.

Mike Gifford, CPWA @FOSDEM
@mgifford@mastodon.social

@xnite@infosec.exchange @tyil@fedi.tyil.nl I do appreciate you interested in dialog. Very few opinions actually change that way mind you.

Bigger issue is the platform nor those on it. What gets amplified or silenced. There is a clear bias in X that uses free speech as a cover for an anti-woke agenda.

xnite
@xnite@infosec.exchange

@mgifford@mastodon.social @tyil@fedi.tyil.nl I may be wrong but doesn't that very same platform, X, support free speech both ways? I understand for sure how much it's become a hate machine within itself. I notice it every time that I've logged in over these past couple of years and it's almost as if you can't escape hearing a racial slur or hateful comment against an entire group of people. I absolutely see that as a problem. What I don't see is people combating those views or even trying to create a dialogue of any form of understanding. Very rarely do I see an opposing view. From my perspective those who would disagree the loudest have walked away and left the entire platform one sided. Those who are left get dog piled with none of their own "dogs" to jump in and defend them.
Does true change not come from within? What happens to a society when that society does not speak up against the things that tear them apart from the inside out?

The most important question: Do you ever feel like maybe we are living in that part of history where the future children, who are learning about our time, raise their hand and ask "why didn't anybody do anything to stop them?"