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All of these "alternatives" suck. Whether you believe in censorship or not (I don't), building a no-censorship alternative to a major media platform mostly attr
by fortythirteen 9y ago
All of these "alternatives" suck. Whether you believe in censorship or not (I don't), building a no-censorship alternative to a major media platform mostly attracts the people who were censored because of truly abhorrent content. Gab and voat suck because 90% of the content is extremist bullshit.
The development community needs to stop building "alternatives", with the hope that they become the next big thing, and go back to building things that we want to use ourselves.
- whywhywhywhy 9y ago>go back to building things that we want to use ourselves. Isn't this exactly what Gab is though? It was built from the ground up to house a very specific type of content being banned on Twitter. We might not agree with what they're doing or who uses it but it is exactly an example of a developer scratching their own itch.
- fortythirteen 9y agoGab was billed as a "free speech Twitter alt" by it's founders. The people looking for that platform happened to be the folks that have turned it into alt-right Twitter.
- kadenshep 9y ago>content is extremist bullshit. Mainly just right+ extremists. No need to beat around the bush.
- fortythirteen 9y agoThat's only because the left+ extremists are tolerated, if not condoned, on the SV run platforms.
- miragle 9y agoThat's probably because they're not posting abhorrent content.
- fortythirteen 9y agoYeah, because 100 million murdered by communists in the 20th century wasn't enough, amirite?
- kadenshep 8y agohttps://www.quora.com/What-has-killed-more-people-communism-or-capitalism https://www.quora.com/What-has-killed-more-people-communism-... The worst thing about the talking point you're spouting off is how unaware you've willingly chosen to be about this topic.
- dang 8y agoPlease don't use HN for ideological flamewar. It's off topic here.
- fortythirteen 8y agoI doubt you would feel that way if I responded to someone condoning fascism.
- miragle 8y agoI have a sneaking suspicion that you're itching to do just that
- fortythirteen 8y agoIf I was, I would have worded my initial, base level, comment differently. Note that I'm not the one bringing up right or left and I'm specifically complaining about websites that have a far right user base. So, I think you should question if you're projecting here.
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- kadenshep 8y agoProbably because left+ extremists don't inherently have dehumanization and genocide as part of their political and moral beliefs. You can disagree with economic allocation theories, but it's really not appropriate to compare the two.
- fortythirteen 8y agoYes, the only thing they have going for them is that the initial factor they use for putting someone against the wall is economic and not race based. They still put innocent people against the wall. How is this not clear to you?
- kadenshep 8y ago>How is this not clear to you? Because it's objectively a straw man and isn't based on anything except your ideological preconceptions? >the initial factor they use for putting someone against the wall is economic and not race based. * Huge citation needed
- fortythirteen 8y agoCitation? Lenin, Stalin, Mao, three generations of Kims, Guevara, Castro, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Min. All murdered massive amounts of their own people for not being communist.