@LondonCalling Good notion but nah this was from when they first set up a Mastodon server, they imported all their old users and statuses to inflate their numbers.

It's true the instance is growing, and perhaps more rapidly than other instances today, but that's not quite what I'm looking at.

@emsenn @LondonCalling@todon.nl is it seriously growing? That's sad and disturbing.

@Wetrix Just an FYI but a quick perusal of your profile shows that from my perspective, you're close to tipping alt-right yourself. That's great you find sites like Gab disturbing, but sites like NaturalNews.com are similar (and in fact, that one maintains a presence in the Gab community) in the important ways, and serve to normalize alt-right content and act as a funnel into further right views.

1/n

@emsenn hmm I read one or two articles from there on natural news and it's too out there and biased for me.

I'm more just a guess normal conservative if there's such a thing? Sex and skin color doesn't matter to me I have friends from all over the spectrum 😋

@Wetrix Good to hear that site isn't reflective of what you normally read.

I'd say that in a time when the government is becoming totalitarian, it's important that everyone who isn't actively fascist stop supporting the fascists. That means I don't think there can be "normal" conservatives, when our government is acting so abnormally: your "normal" conservativism supports and legitimizes the extreme form, and that means concentration camps and stochastic terrorism. 1/n

@Wetrix Your conservativism can certainly inform your resistance, but if you are not resistant to the current rise of fascism, it doesn't matter what you call yourself: you're a collaborator. (And the same is as true for any liberal who calls themselves such but doesn't do anything to curb the authoritarian nature of state power.)