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The people who cry about censorship on big platforms are people who want to access the audience. They aren't crying for the censorship itself (they usually love
by antris 5y ago
The people who cry about censorship on big platforms are people who want to access the audience. They aren't crying for the censorship itself (they usually love when people with opposing views get banned), they are just using that word to complain about them losing an audience. Setting up a personal website doesn't meet that goal, and probably a thing like this doesn't either. Most of the nazis etc. are quite miserable in their "censorship-free" platforms, because they can't reach normal people there.
- perilouspear 5y agoIndeed, in many cases the takeaway is that the greater public just isn't interested in what these individuals are saying. If it were, the personal sites and small uncensored platforms you mention would be sought out by it, but with few exceptions that practically never happens. Even with platforms with the potential for limited/no content moderation like Mastodon, the bigger nodes with less polarized demographics tend to be those that moderate their content. It's almost impossible to build a healthy community on a platform where anything goes.
- amadeuspagel 5y agoIt's sad, but not surprising, to see a question about how two protocols compare answered with insinuations about "people who cry about censorship", who supposedly "love when people with opposing views get banned". Any discussion of censorship-resistant technology seems to attract people who just love censorship, and hate anyone who doesn't, and it's not enough for them to express these views in a top-level comment, they even have to spam specific discussions.
- antris 5y agoIf pointing out that having an audience is a central need for people who use social media, makes me "love censorship", then you are delusional.
- amadeuspagel 5y agoWhat makes you "love censorship" is making insinuations about anyone who "crys about censorship". As you yourself pointed out, neither RSS nor nostr do anything to help people find an audience, so this is completely irrelevant to the question of how these things compare.
- antris 5y ago> What makes you "love censorship" is making insinuations about anyone who "crys about censorship". Ok. So still delusional. Have a good day.