a on Nostr: the concept of a singular shared "fedi" helps no one and hurts many people, global ...

the concept of a singular shared "fedi" helps no one and hurts many people, global context collapse isn't a good thing and i don't want to exist in the same space as certain people. the current paradigm especially has led to nation-statification along instance lines and increased tensions and conflicts when people feel "their" space is being encroached by others who don't share the same cultural values. "fedi unity" is essentially an expression of the same mindset of "left unity" as espoused by liberals, but possibly even more fraught. it amounts to the promotion of certain cultural values over others, and right now the shitlib twitterite faction has too much influence.

when you lack any real context and can only subscribe to all-or-nothing from people, you end up coalescing around people who offend you the least. this begets unity within the subculture but can also lead to groupthink and mob mentality. those bound by no context must therefore be bound by something else: cliques or cults or circles. we should reject these ingroup/outgroup dynamics and instead optimize for explicit contexts