@noyoushutthefuckupdad I'm using Twitter and I'm enjoying it. I'm enjoying it because I run into people who I don't really agree with, I'm enjoying it because I run into people who have interests that I do not. There is actual, real, diversity there. I know that word has become a bad word because it just means more blacks in most contexts. But what I mean by it is there's variety. Everybody of all perspectives and persuasions and backgrounds actually do use Twitter. And that does make the user experience of it richer. Also, it's gotten less censored under Elon Musk. I don't want to say it's totally free speech, because it absolutely isn't, but it's certainly less censored than any of us would have expected of it before Elon Musk started buying it. Of

As for being shielded from normal fags, I don't really care about that. On twitter, you can be in your little cloister, and then choose to leave it from time to time as you see fit. We don't have that option here. If I want to leave this cloister I have to leave this service.

Not only is the subject matter limited, but in many ways it's very obvious that the culture is downstream of 4chan. This has some advantages, but some disadvantages too. There's this active effort to "filter" people, and the filters aren't really that intelligent. Just because somebody gets offended with illustrations of little anime girls being raped or find the nigger word distasteful doesn't mean that their perspective is totally unworthy of being heard out. And people on this side of fedi will go out of their way to pick a fight with these people.

While it can be entertaining at some moments, the consequences are legitimately bad. What's worse is the people who do this insist that the consequences are good, because it means that everybody who isn't an anime tech sperg who says nigger won't be on here for very long.

The correct take would be to encourage everybody to start their own instances so that anybody can join and discuss the things that actually matter to them, in the manner that they find appropriate, and blocking the instances who aren't willing to color inside those lines. As I said before in many other posts, it's Free Speech but also free association. We absolutely should have been encouraging grannies to start their knitting circles on fedi. But those filter niggers actively work against it, and it's an uphill battle even without that shit.