Unpopular Opinion

Mastodon's got some professional machiavellian gaslighters on it, I promise you.

Until some Fediverse portion grows spine-enough, and methodical-systematic-process-enough, to mitigate the malevolent, then they always will win.

That's how Natural Selection works.

That's why most natural/wild mammals are filled with parasites & things, in their "utopian heaven".

We do have the potential to do better, but it requires a bedrock of spine & uprightness, of carefully blocking malevolence, & not-permitting it to own/torque our world.

I'll not "hold my breath" waiting for it.

Considered-reason's the toughest position to hold-onto, as ALL ideology/prejudice wants it obliterated, left & right, theist-religion-ideologies & anti-theist-ideologies, ALL want their ideological/prejudice supremacism.

The Great Filter, it is called: a world-species reaches adult-technology while still fundamentally unconscious-mind toddler.

Consequences are .. "expressed"/enforced.

thank you, at least someone is saying it.

I don't think it's worse, but that's only because, as far as responses from trolls and bad faith actors go, I'd rather get screeds from lunatic extremists than pseudo-leftist establishment dogma boiled down to little pieces of emotive rhetoric that are just mindlessly regurgitated over and over by bots and humans-who-might-as-well-be-bots.

I'm mostly here because I think social media shouldn't be owned by a corpo.

I have no illusions as to the quality of the people or discussion I end up engaging with.

Being able to let strangers be wrong on the Internet and let it go is just what is required of us if you want to preserve your sanity while keeping an Internet presence.

The unfed troll dies.