"If you use X, you're a nazi" "If you use Y, you have no honor" "I have no respect for you if you use Z"

"How dare you not switch already, you're fucking helping the fascists!" "I will send you pictures of concentration camps to show you how bad of a person you're being for not using something that isn't hosting nazis!"

I scrolled on here for 10 minutes. I saw all these statements zip by in some fashion or another. Not aimed at me, just screeched into the void.

Exactly why am I supposed to engage here? To find stimulating debates? Interesting viewpoints?

Might just be the day but holy shit my timeline is toxic right now. Everyone knows EXACTLY how the world works, EXACTLY what others who's situations aren't known should do or shouldn't do, how every single person ever should behave and fuck you if you're not conforming.
Now where have I seen that mentality before... 🤔🤔🤔

Don't even try coming at me about tone policing. I, do, not, care.

@zersiax I think part of what's going on is that on the fediverse specifically, the founding population, and the people outside the blind community who still tend to come here, had specific reasons for rejecting mainstream social media, and those reasons are often political. So we were never going to get something that was just like good old Twitter, but accessible. That doesn't excuse those kinds of posts, though, just possibly explains them.