Habermas wrote a ponderous two-volume book titled

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Communicative_Ac...

which seems to postulate that some kind of deliberative process by which "people come together to share disparate views" could solve many of the problems that he points out in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimation_Crisis_(book)

if we could just find the right process but in 2025 it seems dangerously naive today. That is, when people come together to share disparate views online they seem to relish attacking each other and reinforcing tribal identities. I have a lot of problems with this recent Nate Silver editorial

https://www.natesilver.net/p/what-is-blueskyism

particularly (i) it didn't start on BlueSky but really started on Twitter and Tumblr, and (ii) centrists like Matt Yglesias who pick fights with that kind of leftist or anyone who complains about being bullied by trans people is either doing it to get a rise or drive traffic to their blog. Even if he names it wrong, the phenomenon he's describing is a very real thing and it's particularly harmful to the causes and the individuals that those who participate in it claim to be advocating for.