Genuinely have no idea how to turn the toxic cycle of discourse around.
Staying out of the way feels wrong.
Speaking up never seems to go well.
Trying to model less reactive behavior doesn’t seem to help anything.
Technology is turning all of us, myself included, into the most reactive versions of ourselves. We are not evolved to handle this much input.
I’m smart enough to know we need to step back from the brink, but not enough to know how to get there.
@briannawu I've been thinking recently that maybe smaller communities are the answer?
I think the more people you put into a room the more likely it's going to be unpleasant, like people are just not wired to get along at global scales.
Putting the LGBTQ+ meetup in the same room as the white supremacist meetup was never going to produce a good result?
Mastodon has been a breath of fresh air for me not having to see so many hateful posts in every conversation.
Brianna Wu
James Bulman