Fediverse

Oh yeah, I concede that there are great discussions there, including some that are nowhere else (more or less, as in with much lower intensity). Certain communities are fine (in terms of their content), and direct links are just flat good scholarship to cite your resources.

That said, the wording of both of our messages here would also, in theory, apply to Reddit, X, Facebook, and even Truth Social, so it makes sense why we are being downvoted, bc the arguments going against moral purity testing are heavily unpopular here. And to some degree rightly so, since we need to separate ourselves as much as possible from such.

You might consider sending people links to those messages as accessible via programming.dev rather than lemmy.ml? Perhaps that approach would have more success at enticing people to join the Threadiverse who absolutely would not if you sent them a link to lemmy.ml and then they explored around that instance a bit and, not liking what they see there (understandably) nope right out of the whole affair.

People are not as simple as (most) programming - there is such variety and the less deep thinkers, who nonetheless have great skills in other areas that you lack (e.g. artists, or woodworking) may need you to do some of that more detailed thinking for them. If you want to - i.e. if you want the benefits that having done so would offer.