I'm kind of struck by how left-leaning the Fediverse is - after seeing so many right-wing social media sites stumble and bumble their way to ignominy. And I realised - the right want a social media site where they can own the libs, flex and troll. And it's boring trolling each other instead. While for the left, it's more about wanting a site to actually interact in a reasonable way with grown-ups.

Just interesting to note.

Fedi works because it works; Gab and Rumble and Truth and all the other right-wing circle-flappers just limp along without any users, because they don't offer what right-wingers want: targets.

@oldladyplays Apologies in adv inf I trigger. As a centrist I'm struck by the similarities of behaviors on all the platforms. The right finds some crazy tic tok and they say see look at these crazy people so they can other a larger group of people while asking you to subscribe. I've seen similar behavior from the left too, referencing articles which vary widely from really good pieces to dressed up blog posts. I'm looking at you wired game reviews. Again sorry to trigger anyone