I don't think there's any need to hide from this. For a while, all the major social networks were run by people who all felt politically much the same way. That has now faded, and it will probably never come back. So people who also felt that way politically feel the need to take greater actions to take control of their social media presence.
While I do not align with these people politically, I applaud their desires and encourage them to continue taking action to own smaller spaces instead of us all trying to fight over the monolithic centralized large spaces. As I've said several times on HN now, I am not particularly convinced in the long term that massive centralized communities are practical because the intersection of all community social norms is essentially the null set, or at the very least, much smaller than anyone wants to be confined to. The fact that all of the major sites sourced from a particular geographical location with particular dominant political beliefs was a historical anomaly that won't be replicated.
Perhaps, philosophically speaking of course, this is not such a bad thing? Maybe societal change should be slow and deliberate.
> The fact that all of the major sites sourced from a particular geographical location with particular dominant political beliefs was a historical anomaly that won't be replicated.
This is a good point that I have not yet considered directly, just through one-off rantings about how everything tech for the longest time was Valley-centered. I can't help but think that a shift away is a good thing long term.
