I’ve seen a lot on instances where people in the fediverse will get ganged up on by the whole service after expressing what they, in their mind, say they have reason to believe is a harmless opinion. For example, there was a debate earlier about the importance of exact terminology (someone was banned for using the term “ethnicity” or something like that) and the person was banned and everyone tends to agree on the ban. However, the world is a big place with over 200 cultures, and it might be culturally incentivized to believe in some rather uncomfortable things (so as long as it isn’t something like thinking one group is superior over another).

I was watching a video where supposedly almost the whole continent of South America is going conservative. I think conservatives can be a hard crowd, but I don’t think they’re evil, so I’d just probably be more reserved around them. However, I’ve seen some conservative people be run out of the fediverse, often with exaggerated labels marking them, all for things which, when you think about it, are technically valid debate club material. Suppose a whole nation like Brazil transitioned into a particularly strong conservative trend that, in the very least, didn’t put minorities on a scale or anything or advocate for anything like world conquest, even if it got extremely technical with what aspects of the situation it believed it could support. What’s the norm around here? To geo-block the nation of Brazil?