(me, wanting the impossible) so, what's the name of a laidback fedi instance that isn't blocking or being blocked all over the place?
freedom of speech but not freedom of troll, like, i don't care what you think, so long as you're not a dick about it.
i've been self-hosting Pleroma for a while but then the DB was corrupted and i'm too lazy to try to repair it. it was running a bit like trash anyway.
i'm not super picky about Mastodon vs Pleroma but would prefer a fork if it's Mastodon.
what i am learning about the non-Scandinavian world through covid:
- many citizens don't trust the government's health advice
- many liberal democracies are more authoritarian than i thought
i sometimes get this feeling that there is no such thing as the West anymore. that there is just Scandinavia and the rest of Europe and America is actually in chaos right now.
and i suspect he engages with the US right because they gave him a platform, not because he shares all their beliefs. he's the opposite of dogmatic.
i mean, if he's a "controversial right-wing figure" then i'm a controversial right-wing figure too, and i don't believe i am.
a lot of the stuff Jordan Peterson says is in agreement with conclusions i had already reached independently. i had not paid much attention to him until i came across a video of his today.
the Internet calls him a right-winger, but the vast majority of what he says is either academic consensus or logically deduced from that consensus. he does profess a belief in God, which would make him popular with the US right, but it's not *that* kind of belief.