We all want Coso to start breaking even, so J doesn't have to pay it all out of his own pocket. That means there need to be a lot more users. That will mean you would have a much different experience unless you #UseTheTools to curate your own experience.
You aren't being a jerk if you mute people whose interests don't match your own. The future of Coso will require people to create communities within the community, where we can continue to experience the small-group feeling we appreciate here.
Very true. Speaking plainly:
I know for a while many here have felt that they can't talk about serious world events without intimidation: too many sabre-rattling posts hinting at the idea that folks will be driven from the site for wrongspeak.
That's something muting and blocking alone can't fix, but it helps. I can't bring most of my friends over because they feel certain right-wing views have a monopoly here, & that some forms of malinformation can spread with impunity. 1/3
TBH, many of them think that my being here is a moral blind spot on my part. How can I be part of a community where so many folks spread malinformation, and where so few people feel safe to share the fullness of info needed to come to a more democratic understanding of key issues today?
But just because Overton has shifted, & plenty of Dems/Libs today hold more right-wing views, doesn't mean any of us are locked into them for life. We can be human together, & keep growing. 2/3
@AlphaCentauri
So, for my part, I'm going to be a more decisive muter and blocker, even though that makes me very unhappy as a democratic thinker, so I can post more comfortably in conversation with the people who are in a place to care more about constructive dialogue and less about sowing distrust if not outright animosity toward any data that reflects the greater complexity of our world.
And I know others here want the same.
So, we'll build that CoSo together.
Thanks for this, AC. 👍🏻 3/3