when i joined the Fediverse... early 2017 i think... i remember a certain positivity, a certain constructiveness, a certain idea of getting away from the "perpetual outrage machine" - this is something people on the Fediverse were calling birdsite at the time, believe it or not. even queer people were saying this.
someone told me the other day that The Discourse was as old as the Fediverse itself, but in either case, i'm not getting what i came here for, or thought i was getting originally.