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@Atlas @techwipe there was a time around 2008 that it was a really great place to be. Sort of like these new platforms there were lots of people with different ideas and some of them were on the left and some of them were on the right and some of them were not really on that spectrum and there was a lot of interesting discussion and you can take part and it was a decent place for that.

I started to notice it around 2015 that there seem to be more people who were more interested in finding out who you really were in real life so that they could hurt you for your opinions that they disagreed with. I started to specifically delete my account on a very regular basis to keep my information safe. At the same time, I tried voat out but I'm not actually a Nazi so I didn't really fit in.

By 2018 I'd completely left because the conversation was so homogeneous it wasn't even worth reading anymore. Any opinion that wasn't part of the group think would get down voted into oblivion almost immediately.

I'm chasing for a place like that 2008 Reddit, where different ideas could engage. I think the fediverse could be that place as long as we keep it decentralized.