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1. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2019 16:02:59 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
   Question: would the ideas present on Gab be sustainable in open federation's "marketplace of ideas"? I suspect that other than among fully-convinced extremists, many of those ideas would lose traction fairly rapidly. For example, someone may be against inter-racial relationships, but when their hormones activate at the sight of a pretty mixed-race woman, all that garbage goes away.
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   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2019 16:11:31 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     I expect Gab to (soon) federate only with preapproved instances, because many of their users will either waver in the face of contrary ideas or demand purity of timelines.
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   • Stephen Michael Kellat (alpacaherder@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2019 16:21:34 UTC Stephen Michael Kellat

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     @lnxw48a1 @lnxw48a1 That’s frankly why I think Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp started failing recently. The purity/litmus tests were collapsing in on themselves to cause some self-destruction. Sometimes you can’t be “pure” enough to meet all demands by the crazies these days.

     Didn’t we have a single character instance of *.status.net back in the ancient days? That might be the only pure-enough social network in times to come.

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