I cannot stress enough that organised media manipulators, harassers, & white supremacist orgs use flamebait, debate, flame wars, drama, arguments, outrage & tabloid gossip as part of their strategy.
Amplifying them and assembling an audience for them is exactly what they want. They will pivot on that to multiply harms - at the low end of the harm scale, they’ll goat se the audience. At the high end: hundreds of people see revenge porn of a secondary target. Or worse.
Squelch them, every time.

There was never going to be a “next Sagan." Everybody’s themselves and the great thing about his modern era of science communication is that it has more space for a wider array of voices doing all kinds of stuff from space to foraging to history to geology.

I've waited a few days to post this about the #mastodonmigration. Here is the evolution of the new accounts in #mastodon after the events in the last week. After each new ban/suspension in the #bluebird we see a spike in new accounts in #mastodon. But recent growth seems to be more steady at around 50k per day. Since the #bluebird purchase by Musk, more than 3 million new accounts were created in #mastodon.