Demosthenes @Demosthenes@qoto.org

@a_lizard that's just how you interpreted my comment, but nothing in my comment expressed that. Lol = laugh out loud. That's an expression merriment or the the perception of humor.

@a_lizard that's just fishing for outrage, lol

@ntnsndr you can have reference material and the work you're working on side-by-side without sacrificing information density or having to rescale your window.

@naga where at?

@freemo Lol! I hadn't seen that

@Jdogg247 unregistered gun? I thought we had a constitutional right to bear arms.

Will I need to register to speak politically soon?

Because it's bullshit that is still influencing the behavior of other people. Personally, I think it's a foreign psyop intentionally designed to destabilize our country.

@prismatic many instances just form an extremist echo chamber, and block any instances who show any cultures that go against their norms.

@krruzic interesting take on the situation, thank you. Do you think the escalations would still have occurred if social media and the internet didn't exist?

@wishgranter14 that's true with pretty much all music. Music is all about audio pattern recognition combined with slight pattern abberation. The combination creates a sense of novelty.

@yarmo having the user open up Internet Explorer and typing the URL manually.

@SEGFAULT this makes the assumption that perfection is required to be good. Why do you feel that perfection is necessary for goodness?

@freedompatriot is there a team behind your massive amounts of posts, or is it just one man and a lode of cocaine?

@SEGFAULT ? Yes there are. Good people do bad things all the time and vice versa. What makes you say there's no such thing?

@io I didn't think Signal was designed for that kind of chat, lol. No wonder they're struggling

@kylekulinski @verita84 @freedompatriot there's also growing cultural anxieties pushing the polarization. Cultural relativism has decayed most social standards, and it's this decay that causes the anxiety.
Small towns tend to have a relatively homogeneous culture, so feel the effects of that culture changing more.
When I was talking about gay vs straight cities, I was more subtly referencing this cultural relativism. I think it's okay for small towns to resist the cultural relativism that is required for cities to thrive.

@resynth1943@koyu.space I'd use the virtual keyboard provided by the OS if needed.

How can deescalation between to battling tribes occur in a social media environment?