There has been a lot of nice comments on fedi here from new users, saying they are made to feel welcome, helped by the community, I would hope that this is the general feeling, we know that this experience is not shared by everyone however, but the same goes for mainstream corporate platforms.
What is important is we learn and develop.
I think everyone is welcome here, we are all capable of making an informed choice when it comes to muting, reporting and blocking of users.
No one is going to (or is expected to ) agree with everyone all of the time, but this is what I like, I can write something and someone will disagree and challenge what I have put in such a way it is respectful I can either reword or change my own thinking on the topic which in some cases could have been formed through reading a bad article for example.
@zleap @rolle
Yes, this is something that I have quite a few times pointed out that I have noticed is very different in the discourse here than corporate-owned social media sites. Here people solve disagreements with discussion.
The difference I noticed here is the lack of trolls. What happens on the corporate sites, and I mention ownership specifically because they are the ones who encouraged this, is that real discussion gets muted by mobs, who silence reason with regurgitated misinformation.