It’s all so exhausting. Like most of us, I left Reddit to get away from centralized control of communication on the Internet and the constant performative division, but it’s almost impossible to avoid. Each platform seems to foster its own flavor of identity with no tolerance for nuance or common ground. I try not to block instances or communities so I can stay up to date on the current tides, but much of it is so reactionary and tolerates nothing less than complete loyalty. Then, every day a new line is drawn in the sand by some faceless account going one step further in one direction or the other and that becomes the new accepted and expected position.

I deeply enjoy the fediverse and especially how genuine most of the users here are, but the choice is still between an echo chamber I make for myself or the echo chamber constructed by the loudest voices.