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Jesse

@futurebird lol I came ready for the pushback. ;) At most I think you could quibble about if it’s a left wing political project, or it’s a political project in which 90+% of the participants happen to be left wing*. It’s definitely a political project though. And there’s definitely a conflict between just wanting to socialize, and wanting to advance the goal of letting socialization happen differently.
* Referring to this fediverse of course, not just anyone running Mastodon or AP