I am not sure why Mastodon is the only platform I am on where ending a post with "I am not interested in debating this" gets dozens of replies, many of which are, in fact, trying to debate this.

@evacide Not sure how sarcastic your tweet (skeets or toots are not even good, you're like children who think they can be cool, enough already) was but here goes.

Twitter was once a great debating ground, full of fun until the scoldy identitarian left weaponised safety to remove any dissenting voices. Then came Mastodon where all the loony techies went - a great place if you like fellow minded, mildly to wildly scoldy autistic techie people.

Threads took the 'I just want business conference chat, nothing unsafe, lets just pass the telling each other how WE are changing the world' sort of people, generally anxious but not autistic people.

Then came the great Bluesky who took the scientists and journalists who were tired of the Nazis on Twitter but comfortable with the 'chug piss' trans activists on Bluesky (you don't believe me but the boys and girls really seem to like it there https://bsky.app/search?q=%22chug+piss%22 ). There is a reason it's real name is Blueski...

Anyway back to your question - Different social media platforms seem to have developed distinct community cultures and approaches to debate. Mastodon often attracts tech-focused users who can be quite direct (thoughtless?) in their communication styles. Twitter's debate culture has evolved significantly over time. Threads appears to have cultivated a more business/professional networking environment, while Bluesky has drawn many academics and journalists looking for specific types of discourse.

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