This is one of my main issues with Mastodon. I hate bubbles of any kind since the opinions in them don't get challenged, everything becomes one dimentional and opinions fester ultimately becoming more extreme.
Twitter was a good platform as the people there had many different viewpoints on issues and political opinions. While yes, there was a lot of trolling and bad-faith from either side, there were also good-faith discussions between ideologies/parties/whatever.
Then Trump got banned. His fans went to alternate platforms eventually culminating in Trump making (more like self hosting) his own social media network and his fans moving there. That is a bubble.
Then Elon bought Twitter and started unbanning many controversial & right-winged accounts, as well as other things, and a bunch of people from the left moved to Mastodon, ultimately resulting in yet another bubble.
Now there are two clear bubbles with X still being a middle ground. If you go against the opinions/agendas of either bubble, you get hate.
I ultimately wish Truth Social enables federation (as it is just Mastodon with a Soapbox FE) so that right winged people can start self hosting their own instances which can, at the very least, interact with Truth Social itself if everyone else blocks them, and that there is more varied opinions and discourse in the fediverse.
That way both bubbles can be popped or at least made smaller.
Exerra :wee: /
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