With what has happened, not just the past two days, but with a lot of relationships that have one soured, I think I know why ShalltearStan @sharutiaburaddofouren left the Fediverse.

He's not coming back and he shouldn't.

@SuperSnekFriend not sure what this is about, but it’s just fedi being fedi. We aren’t all going to agree 1:1 on things so people should be more accepting of each other or at least not judge each other harshly based on an internet fights. We all have stakes in our eyes and shouldn’t point out the specks in others’ eyes ifyouknowhatimean . It does feel like there is less camaraderie and fwenship on fedi at times, and arguments can get so heated over the littlest of things. I think everyone is under a lot of stress in their real lives and at times it can come out in mean ways to people we like online.

@RehnSturm256 @SuperSnekFriend the problem is that people on the fedi really, really, love to get into online fights for stupid reasons and many of them came from other communities notorious for that.

@PurpCat @SuperSnekFriend @RehnSturm256 I came from places where I argued the fuck out constantly exactly to avoid that here

@coolboymew @PurpCat @SuperSnekFriend @RehnSturm256 I like it better when this place was more laid-back and open minded.

@xianc78 @coolboymew @SuperSnekFriend @RehnSturm256 yeah the rise of refugees from other sites shit it up imo

@PurpCat @SuperSnekFriend @coolboymew @RehnSturm256 Honestly, before Poast came along, what united this side of the fedi was the value of decentralization and wanting to get away from big tech. Other than that, there wasn't that much drama between users, outside of the Mastodon NetworkTM side that blocks anyone that is on some fediblock list on GitHub. I had people from all backgrounds following me, anime-avatar Nazis, libertarians, conservatives, conspiracy theorists, tech enthusiasts, and people who just hated big tech but were otherwise "normies".

I think the problem with most of the Poastoids is that they have the mentality that any community they participate in should be their own echo-chambers. Now you got these people gatekeeping something that isn't even theirs, and the fediverse is even more fractured than ever.

Nostr seems to be more like pre-2021 fedi. That's probably why Alex Gleason seems to have favored it over fedi now. There are still a lot of people who constantly talk about how Bitcoin is going to save the world, but if you can get past that, it's pretty laid-back. And the way it operates means that users are forced to judge other users on an individual basis instead of blocking entire instances.