Mastodon seems great for excluding the really unpleasant types who were on Twitter but the danger the other way, of course, is the risk of becoming an echo chamber. Brexit and Trump really shocked me and I would have preferred to have known people thought that way in advance.
What if, say, all the climate change denialists find they like life on one of the generally-blocked instances? Do we all need several accounts? Maybe there's a tech solution, like some clever aggregation to make a digest.
@MattRose I mean the alt-right and neo-nazis have been using social media to radicalise dissatisfied young people for years now. Would it not be better to force them into an echo chamber?
@Sweet_Tango_Chill I think it works both ways. Putting the man-children in an echo-chamber automatically puts us Right Thinking Folk in one too. Then the only impressions we get of each other are second hand and because generally only the most outrageous aspects of any debate get retweeted, boosted or shared, each net-split ends up shouting at a caricature.
OFC I don't want to actually have to engage with deplorables just to know what's going on so maybe I'm advocating quality journalism.
