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I must say, that even in the last few days since I joined Mastodon I’ve seen a culture shift - more #politics, more ‘hot takes’, less discussion, fewer #CWs, less #AltText. I hope it’s a blip and urge newbies like me not to unwittingly play out the #coloniser #stereotypes and ride roughshod over the existing culture. It’s a lovely, gentle, curious #community here, would be awful to ruin it because we’re conditioned to something worse.
@Emmie We're not colonizers, and they sold this space as an open source platform, not a particular culture. This is how cults recruit, with the subtle shaming to do things that don't make sense. Why would we even come here if we were going to be shamed and hassled for talking about the topic that made us leave Twitter?
@Emmie AND! Apparently the "existing culture" is to pay no attention to the whole servers full of literal Nazis. Hypocrites!
@revmagdalen Who sold this space to you? I'd like to speak to their manager. 
@Emmie
I am pleased to say that I, personally, can't confirm this.
I have over 13k of toots, a great deal with #USpol, but also #UKpol and other #European countries.
Whereas the discussion might have gotten heated at times, e.g. about the contentious subject of peace in the #MiddleEast, I was never insulted, and the discourse always remained or became civil again.
These are great folks here, and you can talk about anything. 
@Emmie As a n00b here, I've read and taken notice of yours and other toots that make this point. I will do my best to contribute - sometimes just to chew the virtual cud - by no means anything profound in every toot. I respect that here is a different culture and deserves to be treated as something precious.