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It's hard for me to imagine a less surprising result. And yet it's going to happen again, and again, and again. Voat, Parler, whatever.
Ruqqus, an open source Reddit clone, is shutting down their main instance - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28799199 - Oct 2021 (107 comments)
It's hard for me to imagine a less surprising result. And yet it's going to happen again, and again, and again. Voat, Parler, whatever.
It's amazing how many "founders" think "having a better product" will win out against network effects.
So maybe the question is how does one beat the network effects that are so prevalent?
These free-speech reddit clones always seem to descend to far-right Nazism. Maybe you have to ban all political discussion to survive as a reddit clone on the modern internet.
That's the catch, though. For their extremely broken brains, everything is political discussion. Talking about finance? Well, who do you think controls the world's money? And on and on. Note to dang/admin: I'm sure it is clear that I am being illustrative of a hateful argument, but I am happy to redact.
These free-speech reddit clones always seem to descend to far-right Nazism. Maybe you have to ban all political discussion to survive as a reddit clone on the modern internet.
[1]: https://lemmy.ml/
[2]: https://tildes.net/
I got a slight chuckle out of this because it reminded me of one of my favorite quotes from Slate Star Codex (in this case the blog post was talking about Voat): > The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven…
It's hard for me to imagine a less surprising result. And yet it's going to happen again, and again, and again. Voat, Parler, whatever.
The forever mission to stop them is still incomplete. It is only going to get harder as they keep on being resilient and censorship resistant.
Done by none other than the ones who love chasing so-called 'nazis' for a living.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Afaik Parler is still up. Rumble is still up. Gab is still up. Conservatives want a place on the internet.
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I am conservative, many issues I find liberals think they have the moral high ground on it's quite the opposite.
Note I use these terms loosely and there is a spectrum of political ideologies that differ between people, even between issues.