Jerry 🦙💝🦙Infosec.exchange is now the 21st most populous mastodon instance, yet we're 34x smaller than the largest instance.
Mario Stylianou 
@jerry There's a popular book that advocates, as part of achieving greatness, the need to get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats. So far, this instance seems to have done an amazing job of attracting passionate (and civilized) users. I hope it can continue that #sustainable growth!
.@fomm There's entertainment to be found in a Colosseum... but not everyone wants to spill first blood as a gladiator. Or, more broadly, doesn't want every interaction to happen in a Colosseum.
Without a culture of debate, our democracy would not exist.
What I meant specifically is cybernetics & critical thinking and the communicative exchange, which should please gladly go to the limits of one's own point of view.
Of course, civilized communication is the basis of everything. And not everyone can (or wants to) start or lead a conflict - sure, totally understandable.
@fomm productive conflict and healthy confrontation can lead to the creation of value and positive outcomes, but it is easy to slide into taking the other guy down a notch. In a townsquare you build up, and in a Colosseum you cut down. Twitter has turned into more Colosseum than townsquare. The discourse here is much higher quality for me.
@supermjr thanks. I am very impressed by the crowd that has gathered. So many very smart people sharing ideas. I really love seeing it. I hope it, in some small way, helps in our battle against the baddies.