Spacedragon Apr 17, 2017

Fascinating dynamic unfolding across Mastodon: instances are dividing into two ideological factions: safe speech, and free speech.

The safe speech instances are likely to start sharing domain-level blocklists (like Adblock but for speech) in the near future, to "curb harassment".

The free speech instances legitimately don't seem to care, and so far, have held much more interesting, substantive and intellectual conversations than the safe speech zones.

What can you expect from me? Free speech.

Show threadWilliam CasarinApr 17, 2017
@wogan as a fellow tribe member I agree, but the outgroup would strongly disagree with the "substantive and intellectual" conversation bit. They see free speech folk as savages for including wrong speech, such as anything against far left narratives, and politically incorrect trolling/jokes. There's a sliver of speech that escapes safe spaces, in between the trolling and left narratives which is why I'm here on maly. Not sure why it's so hard to carve out a space like that these days.
Show threadSpacedragon

@jb55 My money's on the politicization of speech itself.

Politics operates on feelings, always has. I imagine that there are big, global cycles in which the entrenched political class eventually imposes their values via education, creating this sort of narrow culture.

Today we know it as safe-spaces, but history is full of examples of those in power imposing their narrow world-views on the young and impressionable.

Apr 17, 2017 at 3:21amWeb