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Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by kanwisher »

nthcolumn wrote: post #141
wallace_f wrote: post #98

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It is worth noting that voat didnt start out as particularly alt right, it's just that's now probably the majority of what is left. The site is totally committed to free speech, and even the Dark Web will allow paedophiles, hit men, and every type of criminal, but collaborated to push off an alt right page. In other words, it doesn't appear to be any agenda of Voat, it's just a fact that any site which allows free sp…

My free speech/opinion: >and even the Dark Web will allow paedophiles, hit men, and every type of criminal alt-right? Why don't you call them what they are - Nazis and fascists. They are lowest of all these. There is probably strong overlap. Fascists think nobody should have any rights but themselves. The vigilantism/collaboration was made necessary by the alarming fact that the people who should have been doing some…

How are they effecting free speech? It seems you are trying to take it away from people, by trying to call them nazis and getting rid of them. This group is probably way more free speech, their main enemy Antifa is specifically against free speech

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by enraged_camel »

kanwisher wrote: post #151
nthcolumn wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My free speech/opinion: >and even the Dark Web will allow paedophiles, hit men, and every type of criminal alt-right? Why don't you call them what they are - Nazis and fascists. They are lowest of all these. There is probably strong overlap. Fascists think nobody should have any rights but themselves. The vigilantism/collaboration was made necessary by the alarming fact that the people who should have been doing some…

How are they effecting free speech? It seems you are trying to take it away from people, by trying to call them nazis and getting rid of them. This group is probably way more free speech, their main enemy Antifa is specifically against free speech

>>by trying to call them nazis and getting rid of them.

Uh, they are quite literally Nazis. They do the Nazi salute, carry/wear swastikas and yell "blood and soil".

You may disagree with antifa but don't make the mistake of equating them with these losers.

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by pherq »

monokrome wrote: post #72

I wonder if these people are aware that they didn't need to write a Reddit clone? Why would you write a Reddit clone in PHP when Reddit itself is a perfectly fine open source Python project? Is their license not permissive enough? https://github.com/reddit/reddit

The authors of Raddit tried that, but found that actually running Reddit's software, especially on low-end hardware for a smaller community, was a pain in the arse and decided it'd be easier to build their own that fit their purposes.

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by nextlevelwizard »

enraged_camel wrote: post #152
kanwisher wrote: post #151

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How are they effecting free speech? It seems you are trying to take it away from people, by trying to call them nazis and getting rid of them. This group is probably way more free speech, their main enemy Antifa is specifically against free speech

>>by trying to call them nazis and getting rid of them. Uh, they are quite literally Nazis. They do the Nazi salute, carry/wear swastikas and yell "blood and soil". You may disagree with antifa but don't make the mistake of equating them with these losers.

The thing is, at the moment if you do not agree with Antifa/SJW crowd you are automatically labeled a Nazi even if you do not wear their symbols or chant any of their slogans. It is strange that on some groups people always say "not all", but with alt-right it is always "they are all Nazis".

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by zimpenfish »

nextlevelwizard wrote: post #155
enraged_camel wrote: post #152

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>>by trying to call them nazis and getting rid of them. Uh, they are quite literally Nazis. They do the Nazi salute, carry/wear swastikas and yell "blood and soil". You may disagree with antifa but don't make the mistake of equating them with these losers.

The thing is, at the moment if you do not agree with Antifa/SJW crowd you are automatically labeled a Nazi even if you do not wear their symbols or chant any of their slogans. It is strange that on some groups people always say "not all", but with alt-right it is always "they are all Nazis".

> at the moment if you do not agree with Antifa/SJW crowd you are automatically labeled a Nazi

This just isn't true no matter how many times people say it.

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by nextlevelwizard »

jrimbault wrote: post #130
striking wrote: post #51

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Especially considering The_Donald is no longer visible on the default homepage.

Was that before or after november ? I can't recall...

I'm assuming the election was in November? The sub was prominently on front page weeks if not months after the election.

Still if you try and contribute (or perhaps blame) the election on a subreddit you are highly delusional. Both candidates were terrible for very different reasons. Still I thought Clinton would have won.

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by CM30 »

tray5 wrote: post #41
eyko wrote: post #40

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The left/right dichotomy doesn't work with anarchism since it doesn't necessarily have to be on either side of that spectrum - generally based on ideas about economy and not social structures or hierarchies. It can display features usually attributed to left wing ideologies (fight for equality, emancipation, fair society, freedom of speech, freedom of (and from) religion, self organisation, bottom-up communities, etc…

Your free market part is where you'll find the clash. Any anarchist would say that a free market is inherently oppressive. The only place a "free" market would work is in a mutualist economy, and even then, that requires worker ownership over the means of production.

And how exactly do you aim to stop a free market existing?

Because I strongly doubt any political change will get everyone to work for 'common interests', and a fair few product creators, service owners, artists and others will try and sell their work anyway.

How do anarchists plan to avoid this? What about the people who don't want to own the means of production and are perfectly fine with working for others for a wage? What would stop people competing with each other to get more money and resources?

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by nextlevelwizard »

zimpenfish wrote: post #156
nextlevelwizard wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The thing is, at the moment if you do not agree with Antifa/SJW crowd you are automatically labeled a Nazi even if you do not wear their symbols or chant any of their slogans. It is strange that on some groups people always say "not all", but with alt-right it is always "they are all Nazis".

> at the moment if you do not agree with Antifa/SJW crowd you are automatically labeled a Nazi This just isn't true no matter how many times people say it.

I only speak from experience. I've been called a Nazi scum for advocating civil behavior, refraining from violence and doxxing, and siding with free speech for everyone. People have even straight up assumed I was a (poorly hidden) KKK member because my user name has the word "wizard" in it.

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by CM30 »

I've said it in the last post about this site, but I'll say it again here regardless.

This site makes the same mistakes as a lot of other 'alternative' social networks or systems, in that it offers nothing for people who aren't interested in talking about politics or the problems on the original site.

It's entirely a hard left wing community laser focused on discussing American politics. There's virtually no discussion of more everyday topics there (like games, TV, movies, music, sports, etc), especially not in a way that doesn't cram politics into everything.

So people who don't care about political discussions or agree with your political views won't join this. Because there's nothing there that Reddit or independent forums on their favourite subjects don't do much better.

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