They've essentially become two sides of the same coin. The whole political landscape has had the Overton Window shifted to the right.

What the conservatives suggested 20 years ago was unthinkable today ... but since the conversation has shifted to the right, it has become normalized today.

"Like a blind man at an orgy ... I was going to have to feel my way through" - Frank Drebin

Oh nice ... I screwed up ... sorry about that ... in addition to missing out on Kbin, I was so discouraged by them dying out that it took me a while to get back to them as they became Mbin

Will correct my original comment ... thanks

It might be more like users are consolidating.

For the past few years, one of the only ways for most people to join different parts of the fediverse was to create multiple accounts for multiple instances. I had to do that over the past couple of years in order to join whatever instance using whatever platform that I happened to be on. On top of that, at the start, I wasn't sure what the platform I was on was like or whether or not I wanted to stay with it, so I created a burner account. So when I started heavily using the fediverse two or three years ago, I had a ton of accounts, most of which were just short lived accounts because I didn't know I wanted to stay with any one instance or platform.

~~Mbin~~ ... Kbin ... was a famous example ... it started out as a promising alternative to a reddit like system and I started a couple of accounts there, only for the whole thing to die off and become ~~Kbin~~ .. Mbin ... [EDIT: I got Kbin and Mbin mixed up - thanks @Blaze@piefed.zip ]

So for the longest time, I've always been cautious and just started temporary or burner accounts everywhere because I wasn't sure it would last. Now everything is maturing and I'm feeling more and more confident every day and now I spend almost all my time on the fediverse. Which means I'm using fewer accounts and the accounts I'm using are becoming permanent

... he whispered to himself, standing on the New England coast, his long hair blowing in the wind, shirtless in his strong muscular frame as he watched the ocean recede and drive her watery passions out to the European shore.

The massive outflow of fluidic carnal energy temporarily disturbed the ocean swells and sent a tsunami of sweet scented passion that hit the Portuguese coast later that morning.

Later that year, Sally did another school report on dinosaurs ... on the thesaurus

I ain't

My work here is done :)

Sexuality or sexual identity isn't the problem ... being afraid is.

They're on their way to the spiral of death