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I was very happy with Reddit around 2008. "The pre-1995 Usenet is back, you can say anything you want and then enjoy the verbal lashings you deserve".

Around 2015 everything changed: you were either transphobic nazi or morbidly obese surgically modified foul-mouthed thingy, who had zher own pronoun. There was no room for normal people anymore.

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Seems to me like there's a growing backlash against the outrage culture that started halfway this decade. I hope it lasts and we can return to normalcy.

agreed, I've been seeing and experiencing more nuance in response to media recently. I wouldn't say it happened around 2015 though because Brexit/Trump seemed to cause a massive amplification from both sides.

We have to get back to a place of nuanced, policy-based liberal democracy as opposed to ideological mud-slinging, or the fallout is just going to get worse.

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