After de-Googling and quitting Facebook, I just wanted some place to still serve as a decent news aggregator and discussion forum without social features or any

After de-Googling and quitting Facebook, I just wanted some place to still serve as a decent news aggregator and discussion forum without social features or anyone building an ad profile based on which threads I'm engaging with. I don't give a crap about startups, but this seemed like the only sane place left for somewhat generalist topics after Scott Alexander's spat with the New York Times made him way too much of a hero for the "anti-racists are the real racists" crowd and poisoned his comments section.