My bits…
I think there should be topics to discuss this stuff in PG but explicitly labeled as political and it needs to have a clear code of conduct.
Ideally one that keeps the speech pretty open but pushes back on direct attacks to humans. Discourse has trust levels so you’d need some higher level of trust to participate to avoid the trolls trying to stir the pot and enable accounts with a rep to lose (btw not requiring doxed accounts).
I think cowering away from these discussions is exactly why the siloes exist. These will never work for centralized platforms but should be where we have these conversations IMO.
Ive modded some data tech communities and would be happy to submit a proposal.
This is about privacy and thats linked to political and economical shit. We need spaces like this to air our thoughts with friends and put tolerance into practice.