Alternative social platforms will never become popular until the left stops purity testing

Stop contributions to mass surveillance? Regain actual connections and news over slop? Being free to communicate without the watchful eye of the tech oligarchs?

Platforms such as Lemmy and Mastodon should be more popular than ever, and yet people only see the “crazy left” forming a critical mass of the user base to the point where unofficlal “rules of condct” become stricter than the oligarchs. We need people to stop purity testing and using algospeak to showcase why moving to Lemmy/Mastodon is a defensive move for free speech.