@TerminalAutism @ryo @shebang @xianc78
> it's just the ideological garbage that gets in the way and keeps that conflict going, forever.
I'm not sure if it's part of human social behavior (like, it's useful for mating) but we like to express "mine is better than yours" and we enjoy conflicts (so we can watch or play as superheroes fighting bad villains), assume we are not interesting in gaining power.

A good example would be the LGBT or other woke community, but this behavior is literally everywhere, like you can see people can't stop labeling Pleroma is (was?) for the right, and Mastodon is for the left, without mentioning whether it's about the dev team or the software. You can still have a "right" Mastodon instance that is, from user's perspective, much better than Pleroma without the default JS-intensive webapp, but it's bad because it's left (and maybe more load on server?) and vise versa. It shifts the focus away.

Still, I think discussion on ideology is totally fine, but labeling is not that okay. Like you can use part of a certain ism or a hybrid to solve a problem, but labeling assumes one following a ism only all the time, and yes it also limits the mind.