probably for the best, all the lemmy.ml people did was come here and downvote or screech about “mIsInFoRmAtIoN”, I didn’t have much in the way of substantial discussion except for maybe like nutomic in this post and in another, and I did try to contribute to their posts over there (although there aren’t too many that came on to my feed worth posting on)

There’s a lot of new leftists that are simply intolerant unlike the old of maybe a decade ago, I grew up leaning a little left and with this tolerance and slowly over time kept experiencing lots of intolerance to the point where now I kind of pre-emptively avoid or ban lefty things from my life because while there are exceptions, it seems to be easier as a rule to just avoid them entirely (much more reliable).

Willing to work together on mutual goals but increasingly to me they are the problem (it wasn’t us who defederated first here but them, which is the same thing I’ve experienced IRL and online) so it does feel like a divide that’s almost better to pre-emptively nip in the bud by avoiding