@anders @alex Brace yourself for a wall of text ? I apologize in advance... I hope you like to read.

I guess what bothers me is Mastodon themselves shadow bans servers that don't enforce moderation for racism, sexism, and transphobia. I'm not talking about individual instances, but the devs and their server lists. While that sounds like a good thing on the surface, that also means there can't be any real discussion about it and all you get for those topics are echo chambers or else you get shadow banned. I don't believe people are inherently hateful for having a different perspective on those topics. I am sure many will disagree with me on that, but my train of thought is how are we ever to move forward as a collective if we are conditioned that it's automatically wrong to have any other perspective than the ones that are pre-approved for us? There leaves no room for growth or trying to understand each other if we are all forced to be in an echo chamber of everyone who already agrees with us. No problems get resolved that way. How are people ever to work out their differences if there isn't even room for rational discussions about these topics? I just feel like in the long run it does more harm than good. It is pretty easy to distinguish between posts that are intended to hurt people, and posts that are intended to spark critical discussion of a topic and share perspective. The problem is, there's such a strong victim mentality that's been cultivated over the years that we've reached a point where those two things are somehow perceived to be merged together, even though the intentions behind both are very different; one to cause harm, the other to share perspective and bridge the gaps. I don't know that I would ever even post about those things, but I know I probably have some perspectives that would get me banned from an instance if I ever shared how I truly felt. I'm not hateful, but there are definitely double standards I see in these kinds of topics that would likely cause me to fall under those labels simply because my perspective is different than what the echo chamber wants to hear. I would like to support a platform that doesn't shadow ban instances and encourage banning people for simply for wanting to have those critical discussions. Does that make sense? ?

Sorry again that was so long winded lol. I've learned over the years to thoroughly explain myself. Often times people twist words or take things the wrong way and assume things. ? Had lots of bad experiences with that in the past so I try not to leave room for misinterpretation.

Friendica is a pretty good platform I think! I've found a bit more openness there, but depends on the instance you join too kind of like Mastodon. ? As far as I'm aware I don't think they shadow ban instances. I'd still love to follow you if you migrate there! Though, after reading this if you think I'm a racist, transphobe, sexist, etc you don't have to pass along your follow info if you don't want to. ? I'll still have a spirituality channel somewhere separate from my main account like I did on Mastodon. I'm just trying to figure out where in the Fediverse I fit right now and which platforms to call home.