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When I announced (on Google+) that I was moving to MeWe and was, obviously, suggesting everyone to follow me there I got a couple of comments saying that MeWe w

by Pamar 8y ago

When I announced (on Google+) that I was moving to MeWe and was, obviously, suggesting everyone to follow me there I got a couple of comments saying that MeWe was some sort of New-Right bastion. To be honest, I have not encountered any of that, but then I have only joined (or created) a very small number of groups and they were all for specific hobbies/interests. Another (possible) problem is mature content and sex bots. The former is easy to solve, you just block or leave users/groups that post mature stuff if this is not your cup of tea. Bots are a bit more annoying but every group has at least a moderator so they are quickly disposed of.

dallas 8y ago
Yes - that's the controversy I'm referring to. I'm on MeWe and haven't encountered any people there that I have followed specifically discussing far-right/alt-right topics except for a couple of folks posting in groups who have made a brand of it (e.g. "The RPG Pundit" and the ex-CEO of Milo Inc. who published an OSR D&D retroclone), but at the time I joined up, all of the political groups in the directory were right-wing or nationalist, and this coinciding with the time Gab was shut down. The sex bot thing has been a problem for a while. I _think_ group owners have been blocking them, and of course I block them, but they still somehow linger to post, and the notifications of their post are not blocked. At least that's how it was about a week ago - seems to have been fixed, or the bots in question have been eradicated.
mcv 8y ago
Yeah, there are Nazis on MeWe. But as far as I know, there are Nazis on every single social network, so that hardly seems like a strike against MeWe. There's a claim that the company specifically targets Nazis to invite them over when they've been banned somewhere else, though, and that makes some people itchy.
dredmorbius 8y ago
The alt-right, conspiracy, white nationalist, fascist, Nazi, anti-vaxxer, and related content dominate the publicly visible groups under MeWe's topics. See: https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/a1jqsy/mewe_a_trip_report/ https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/a1jqsy/mewe_a_tri...

by Pamar 8y ago

dallas 8y ago

Yes - that's the controversy I'm referring to. I'm on MeWe and haven't encountered any people there that I have followed specifically discussing far-right/alt-right topics except for a couple of folks posting in groups who have made a brand of it (e.g. "The RPG Pundit" and the ex-CEO of Milo Inc. who published an OSR D&D retroclone), but at the time I joined up, all of the political groups in the directory were right-wing or nationalist, and this coinciding with the time Gab was shut down. The sex bot thing has been a problem for a while. I _think_ group owners have been blocking them, and of course I block them, but they still somehow linger to post, and the notifications of their post are not blocked. At least that's how it was about a week ago - seems to have been fixed, or the bots in question have been eradicated.

mcv 8y ago

Yeah, there are Nazis on MeWe. But as far as I know, there are Nazis on every single social network, so that hardly seems like a strike against MeWe. There's a claim that the company specifically targets Nazis to invite them over when they've been banned somewhere else, though, and that makes some people itchy.

dredmorbius 8y ago

The alt-right, conspiracy, white nationalist, fascist, Nazi, anti-vaxxer, and related content dominate the publicly visible groups under MeWe's topics. See: https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/a1jqsy/mewe_a_trip_report/ https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/a1jqsy/mewe_a_tri...