Thoughts
Venting, please don’t open:
The Tumblr CEO banned someone for posting about how much she wanted to violently kill him but the person was trans and the CEO’s a white male so the entirety of Tumblr went insane about how transphobic tumblr moderation is and how the CEO needs to cope and they’re being “censored.” At least one person implied that it was fine to send death threats to white men because it’s not part of systematic oppression or whatever. So I log out of tumblr and deleted the bookmark right, fine. I jump over to cohost, because on the whole cohost is a good site; there’s a lot of high-quality enjoyable posts there. Well, coincidentally, cohost has had a spike in users recently. From tumblr users who think they’re being censored on tumblr. So now cohost has the most radically-liberal people imaginable, the people that couldn’t handle tumblr. I think mastodon has a similar problem. It’s people that were too liberal for Twitter. I don’t disagree with Twitter as drastically, but the discussion is really uniquely vitriolic. There’s a lot of mockery on twitter.