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Hmm, yes, imagine if a bunch Republicans took over a government building, armed to the teeth. I can't fathom it.
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> people don't want to be exposed to content that dehumanizes them, argues for their extermination The left does this on Reddit/Twitter constantly towards right wing people and no one bats an eye. It's like maybe those in power are extremely biased towards the left.
Approximately no-one on reddit or twitter is saying that straight people shouldn't be allowed marry. Plenty of people on both are saying that I shouldn't be, though. To take just one example. "People should be marginalised, and made second class citizens, and marginalised people should be kept marginalised" is a pretty common theme on the far right. It is rare on the far left; not that it's non-existent, but there ju…
What? Not that there is no one with this view but it is an extreme minority. Same with people calling for the killing of all cops on the left, very small minority.
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It works because I decide. There's no intrinsical limitation on the number of participants Don't you like what a user says? You can ignore them Don't you like what some instance does, you can block it. Any platform that is popular has an editorial board and doesn't want you to say things they don't like. Simple as that. Newspaper had no comments sections because it's silly to comment the news, they already decide wha…
> I don't mind trolls, if I can decide who they are and silence them. This only works for small communities. You can't feasibly block the literally thousands of trolls and petty assholes that are posting on Reddit every day without that task consuming all your time. Multiply that by every single user having to do it personally and it gets even sillier. There's a reason basically every popular platform is moderated on…
That's simply not true
Ad blocking works because I decide what to block, not because the websites posting the ads are moderating them in a good way
Let me decide, is it really that scary?
My email account is not on Gmail, I manage the spam, and it's ridiculously easy to get just the content I want and delete everything else
It's hard to scale it for hundreds of accounts automatically, but it's not on a personal level
Forums are about what I want to read, not about what it's good for me because a platform says so.
"People have the power" Patty Smith used to say
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> I would love to switch to a better alternative I would love to switch to Reddit from 2008.
I would love to switch to the World from 2008...
A federated reddit system needs ways to lock down user accounts. That it’s basically 4chan in terms of anonymity gives too much of an open door to extremists and trolls. I don’t see any difference between this and voat except the assumption of goodwill rather than being centered around right wing extremism.
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My guess would be that attention-seeking and disruptive behaviours are part of the explanation. In a forum with ten reasonable conversation threads and one highly controversial one, attention is likely to move towards the controversial topic. The phrase "don't feed the trolls" is well-intentioned but it's difficult to scale the message when so many people are online and can witness and partake in minor and major conv…
> The phrase "don't feed the trolls" is well-intentioned but it's difficult to scale the message when so many people are online and can witness and partake in minor and major conversations alike. I wonder if it's possible to have a community where the moderation is more focused on educating people to identify trolling and discourage posters from engaging with emotionally charged/inciting posters. Instead of warning t…
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I love how you explicitly avoided the use of the word gender and don't actually address that you're uncomfortable that some people don't fit into the social boxes of male and female. As for vitriol against billionaires and cops, taking a stand against people abusing power is as American as the Boston tea party. If you're advocating for people to shut up and take the abuse you sound pretty authoritarian to me. Is it t…
Maybe because sex is a more accurate term.
> don't actually address that you're uncomfortable that some people don't fit into the social boxes of male and female.
So? What's your point? Male and female on not simple social boxes. There are real biological and physical differences between them.
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Firstly, no, that position isn't 'scientific'. The scientific portion of the equation comes from the separation of gender and sex along with the psychological and sociological expectations of how someone conforms to a given gender role. I see this often that people take a disingenuous stance and then claim it's 'scientific' when its anything but. Secondly, that argument has a lot of baggage associated with it. Transg…
It's not a right to be in the military. You also don't have a right to my services. So if I don't want to make a cake because I don't agree with a homosexual lifestyle or maybe because I have issue with the Catholic faith that it well within my right.
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The best way to stop an alternative becoming filled with extremists is to start it off as a community for a specific audience, then expand to a more general one later on. Twitch and Discord did well there for instance. Started out as gaming focused, then became more mainstream. By doing this, you bring in non extremists early on, and tilt the audience pecentages in such a way that most regulars aren't such extremists…
But if you're just copying reddit, why would someone want to go to "a reddit for art" if reddit already has a section for art? You have to offer something substantially better, otherwise it's easier to just stay where the traffic is.