@alter_kaker said in Meta Topic—What do we Want?:
We can definitely try to keep politics somewhat contained in its own section. It might be worth looking into just how compartmentalized we can keep this space; maybe you can subscribe to some categories and just ignore—or even hide—others.
looks like you definitely can hide categories, so maybe a category "politics" (which we can even subdivide if we want) and then people could and be encouraged to feel free to mute it.
@alter_kaker said in Meta Topic—What do we Want?:
My biggest concern is that it might be difficult to keep politics out of Torah discussions. To me Torah is intensely political and it would be inappropriate to ignore that. But I'm using the broad definition of politics: the question of how do we live as a society.
as someone who's very much in the "everything's political" camp that's something i had to deal with when adding "CW politics" to the tooot.im community rules. but to me there's two ways to reconcile that conflict:
- it's relatively easy to separate state politics and politics that don't concern political parties and politicians directly
- the general approach we take towards politics on tooot.im is "if someone complains that a post is political and should be CW'd, they're probably right, and so long as nobody complains we assume it's fine". that way people are encouraged to speak relatively freely, but also people are empowered to ensure the space feels safe for them.
@alter_kaker said in Meta Topic—What do we Want?:
One of my goals is to enable a space where people of different FoRs can interact, because I know Jews who for example have never knowingly spoken to a Reform Jew, or an Orthodox Jew, or a Queer person.
idk if i'm once again too trusting, but i'm thinking that so long as we proactively remind people that all FoRs are valid so long as they don't actively harm another person, that people should stay respectful, mindful of their biases, then i don't see why different FoRs wouldn't be able to mix. i think that so long as someone didn't open a discussion explicitly saying "hey i want to get the PoV of people from this FoR only, thanks", there's no reason not to allow someone to join in, so long as they're aware of their limits (and even possibly state them outloud, e.g. "as someone who grew up in Israel i'm aware my perspective on this may be biased, but yada yada").
