>Look at what happens every time someone gets banned from Platform X and tries to create "The Free Speech Version Of Platform X. Ask yourself wether the audien

>Look at what happens every time someone gets banned from Platform X and tries to create "The Free Speech Version Of Platform X. Ask yourself wether the audience drawn to the new platform has culture. I don’t think it has, they are usually the subset of platform Xs original users who are simply not able to get their point across without having the rest of Xs audience reacting emotionally negative (because the rest of the audience also has no culture). It’s a social problem, not a technical one. 80% of people seek identity and peer confirmation, _because they have no culture_. In the case of US-audience, this effect gets accelerated because part of US-culture IS the “Wild West/I ignore anything that’s not my gut”-madness. If you view that as the default, sure, we wont get anywhere. I do not view this as the default. The self censorship that you describe on HN in a way is, you probably guess what I’m about to write, culture. Culture includes to restrict yourself in order to fit your content and your expressions to the space you’re in. Whole heartedly: please don’t censor yourself. Please don’t care about downvotes. Cultivate your thought and formulate it adequately, and there should be no moderation-incentive. Just don’t shove strong opinions (which are categorically dull) down an audience that’s not interested in them. Instead be curious and get the point across as questions, etc. it’s all a matter of form. You can explain the problem of cancel culture even to the most stubborn filter bubble-stuck dim person, you just have to use wording that lets them see through your eyes. That’s hard, but culture HAS to be hard. The alternative will always converge on /b/, because the alternative always converges in the absence of culture.