Something I think we can do better here:

Labeling people and putting them in their place was thought of as fun sport on the Bird site. But we should try to have a little more patience here.

Sometimes people just want to be a part of things -- if they are clumsy and we crucify them for trying, that doesn't speak well of us as a society.

Where viable and safe, gently engage instead of dismissing or categorizing people. See the individual. Let's not put up walls before we've even begun.

@BobWilliams agree. I’m working hard on this personally. Practicing empathy, and reflecting back to people what you are hearing is a great way to validate them. Even if you don’t necessarily agree or understand. I find you always learn something through this process and the result is tremendous growth. It’s also feels pretty damn good.
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For me it was mostly losing patience with people making unfounded assumptions about something I said, clearly not bothering to look at my profile or prior posts.
Doing my best to take a few breaths and figure out what they are trying to get at (and taking time to look at their profile and posts!).
@BobWilliams I hope we can all work to change the tone of social discourse.
@BobWilliams I completely agree. What people believe helps best politically / in more abstracted thought and how they actually treat people in practice can also often be a contradictory mess. I don't mean to excuse anything, but it seems better to see the good and question them as to how their seeming compassion lines up with their views of governance than to dismiss the entirety of a person because of what they've come to believe. There's more reasons to that than them always being selfish.
@BobWilliams You sound like a nice, caring, compassionate person. I’m glad to be able to follow you.

@BobWilliams Yes, please. It's easy to get caught up in an outrage, and it's true, there's a lot to be outraged about. But jumping down everyone's throat, and gangpiling on the tweet of the day helps no one.

I'm wrong about something every day. But I'm interested in learning.

We're all flawed, we should be able to advocate for a better world without so much viciousness.

@BobWilliams I've noticed that plenty of total twats decided to migrate here because of the rush, and continue to be the absolute bell ends they were on twitter, except here. So while I think some tolerance for those with withdrawal symptoms is appropriate, there are more than a few who need to know: twitter was, and remains, their home, so fucking stay there.
@BobWilliams That site was fun back at the start, 13 years ago for me, but it soon represented the worst in humanity. So far, this site seems to be avoiding that. I'd say, if a person fits here, they don't fit in the hellhole the other has become. Good post!
@BobWilliams Yes and no. There's many more people acting in good faith here - and I'm happy to engage - but there's still a whole lot of civility trolls. That's the mansplainers, techsplainers and sealions who insist you owe them a debate just because they have an opinion on the matter you raised.
My attitude on the hellsite was "piss off and post on your own page" - and it hasn't changed much.