Yeah I agree about an average American being pretty naive to things. It’s not even just naive, it’s actively mis/dis-informed too

this is a war on information

I think most people understand that by this point. It’s been a war on information since the internet was created, even 80 years ago people like Goebbels understood the value of constricting information flow.

I got banned multiple times from calling something on a conservative subreddit hate speech, because it was very blatantly hate speech. Go figure…

ahhh that’s what happened to me then. I just randomly got banned one day and I think it was reporting a conservative post for hate or something

Try explaining that term to someone in 1925. I’m proud of how far we’ve come.

Welcome. I joined from reddit in 2025, and happy to see more come over since Reddit has become a corporate, bot-filled, propaganda arm for many different groups

Without some kind of mechanism to cap off growth, I think any social media service will end up like Facebook. As for the concept of a fediverse here, I think certain instances will definitely turn to shit, but it’s up to the individual instance rules to figure that out.

Reddit has been Facebook since like 2019-2020. Any social media service that gets too big just becomes a complete shit hole, hence my joining the fediverse.