fair point. I don’t disagree with the fedi not being the place for it either but, I do also want to note it’s becoming harder to find a place to have any meaningful dialogue about most things these days outside of a curated echo chamber. we used to have passioned debates within academia, but that’s become far too risky with the current climate and the ever evolving vocabulary of what’s truly acceptable and what has unintended meanings. social media has become a nightmare, and most of the rest of the mainstream Internet isn’t interested in having a meaningful discussion, just people posting selfies and trying to get views for ad money. reddit has become super commercialized and rejects anything that would scare away advertisers as well. id think some lemmy instance would be one of the last places a meaningful dialogue could occur, but of course nobody wants their platform to degenerate into a soapbox for hate speech.

Well, perhaps my comment was just me coming to terms with the sad fact that this is just the new reality where misinformation and deepfake videos have free reign to produce this layer of scum in these degenerate free speech echo chambers that we just have to shield ourself from like a zombie attack and hope nobody in our local area we have to deal with on a daily basis gets sucked into it and past a point of no return. you think the days of fox news was bad back in the Obama years when we could publicly mock and call them out on their bullshit? just wait about a decade from now and see what cults bubble up from these partitioned platforms. that sounds incredibly dystopian to me.

sorry that’s a long rant, but I really feel this is where we are headed.