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I'd be interested why this comment is greyed out? Can anyone explain?

• retsibsi 6y ago
  I didn't vote, but based on a glance at the ruqqus front page, it looks like (and this is my attempt at being charitable) it may have fallen into the usual trap for 'free speech' platforms. They initially attract some combination of 1) principled free speech absolutists, 2) ordinary people annoyed by the political leanings of the dominant platforms (maybe because they are on the opposite side, maybe because they simply want more free discussion and less groupthink), 3) genuine extremists (of the kind that the average person would not be comfortable sharing even a virtual space with), and 4) people unwelcome elsewhere less for political reasons than because they are dedicated to being extremely obnoxious. If you begin with too many people from groups 3 and 4, they pretty quickly cause an exodus of groups 1 and 2. edit: and even if it doesn't go to that extreme, you can easily end up with at least as bad an echo chamber as the ones you were trying to escape, only with the polarity flipped.
  • vkgfx 6y ago
    The paradox of tolerance. Gets em every time. It's exceptionally hard to thread the needle like reddit mostly dude pre-2013/2014 or so. It's incredibly easy to be another Voat.
    • captainmeta4 6y ago
      Ruqqus cofounder/dev here. We're trying to thread that needle. We've so far dodged the massive racism influx that doomed voat. Personally I'd suggest "regular", nonpolitical guilds like +Dumpsterfire, +mansbestfriend, and +memes
  • catalogia 6y ago
    Exacerbating matters, any of the first three sort may choose to become the fourth sort as retribution if they feel slighted by a platform trying measures against them (real or imagined.)
    • reedwolf 6y ago
      But ironically that's what causes the failure of the alternative platform they've moved to.