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It's not "being mean" it's being unable to participate in discussions when you don't tow the line. This is true on Twitter and Reddit, even HN. You are also not

It's not "being mean" it's being unable to participate in discussions when you don't tow the line. This is true on Twitter and Reddit, even HN. You are also not supposed to even bring up the issue as that will be down regulated even more heavily. The problem needs to be solved one way or another because things are spiralling out of control. The solution isn't "conservatives should just stop not saying what I want them to say" as that will never happen.

scarface74 6y ago
Sure. If you want to have a discussion where you don’t have to be dependent on other people’s rules. Create your own forum. That’s how you solve it. The open source community didn’t just complain about the closed source products that other vendors released. They created their own alternatives. Why can’t conservatives come up with successful forums? Are there no conservative entrepreneurs with the technological wherewithal?
- emerged 6y ago
  Just as systemic racism can occur in institutions, systemic bias can occur in the technology sector. Once momentum builds in a political direction, there becomes a cost associated with going against that grain. Over time it has built up to a breaking point where dissent from that bias effectively removes people from being able to participate. I think it's not intellectually honest to believe systemic issues in one instance require intervention, but not in the other.
  - scarface74 6y ago
    Really? HN is a forum of technical people. The technology behind creating a forum is not rocket science. Getting a colocated server is not rocket science. There are enough conservative outlets that should both be willing to fund the development and for a marketing outlet. Hell, I am the furthest thing from a conservative but if conservatives are really so inept that they can’t create their own forums, give me the money. I’ll figure it out. I’m not going to do your marketing for you. But if an atheist can make it big selling bible apps,I’ll take their money to create a forum. Oh and BTW, I think I probably know a little more about “systemic racism” than you do. You can’t imagine the looks we got when we first started searching for homes and getting one built in the neighborhoods where “we don’t belong” or the number of times that consultants came in to talk to the dev lead and started talking to one of my reports and walked right past me.
  - asdf123wtf 6y ago
    Parler doesn't solve any of the alleged problems with centralized tech platforms. It just erects another centralized service with yet another promissory note to be nice and stuff. They are simply cynically using the fears/persecution complexes of conservatives (many of whom have huge audiences on the social networks they claim are oppressing them) as a ploy to seed their network with a large pool of users. If the people migrating really cared about tech censorship, they'd launch a Mastadon node.

scarface74 6y ago

Sure. If you want to have a discussion where you don’t have to be dependent on other people’s rules. Create your own forum. That’s how you solve it. The open source community didn’t just complain about the closed source products that other vendors released. They created their own alternatives. Why can’t conservatives come up with successful forums? Are there no conservative entrepreneurs with the technological wherewithal?

emerged 6y ago
Just as systemic racism can occur in institutions, systemic bias can occur in the technology sector. Once momentum builds in a political direction, there becomes a cost associated with going against that grain. Over time it has built up to a breaking point where dissent from that bias effectively removes people from being able to participate. I think it's not intellectually honest to believe systemic issues in one instance require intervention, but not in the other.
- scarface74 6y ago
  Really? HN is a forum of technical people. The technology behind creating a forum is not rocket science. Getting a colocated server is not rocket science. There are enough conservative outlets that should both be willing to fund the development and for a marketing outlet. Hell, I am the furthest thing from a conservative but if conservatives are really so inept that they can’t create their own forums, give me the money. I’ll figure it out. I’m not going to do your marketing for you. But if an atheist can make it big selling bible apps,I’ll take their money to create a forum. Oh and BTW, I think I probably know a little more about “systemic racism” than you do. You can’t imagine the looks we got when we first started searching for homes and getting one built in the neighborhoods where “we don’t belong” or the number of times that consultants came in to talk to the dev lead and started talking to one of my reports and walked right past me.
- asdf123wtf 6y ago
  Parler doesn't solve any of the alleged problems with centralized tech platforms. It just erects another centralized service with yet another promissory note to be nice and stuff. They are simply cynically using the fears/persecution complexes of conservatives (many of whom have huge audiences on the social networks they claim are oppressing them) as a ploy to seed their network with a large pool of users. If the people migrating really cared about tech censorship, they'd launch a Mastadon node.