Reddit alternative Ruqqus shutting down
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Reddit alternative Ruqqus shutting down
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#2These 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.
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#3I 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 zillion witches. It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservativ...
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#4It'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.
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#5These 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.
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#6It'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.
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#7It'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.
Afaik Parler is still up. Rumble is still up. Gab is still up.
Conservatives want a place on the internet.
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#8These 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.
It's weird how these "free speech" social media sites always seem to have just as much moderation (if not more) than mainstream platforms, just with a big exception carved out for far-right fascist topics.
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#9These 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.
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#10And not a thing of value was lost.