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Let's see, from the top down I found: 1) Far-right cesspool 2) Far-right cesspool 3) Far-right cesspool 4) Anti-trans "women's community" 5) Something actu

Let's see, from the top down I found: 1) Far-right cesspool 2) Far-right cesspool 3) Far-right cesspool 4) Anti-trans "women's community" 5) Something actually decent

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mike00632 4y ago
This was my exact thoughts
- acgh213 4y ago
  me as well, plus it doesn't list things like discord servers, but will list mastodon communities? just feels purposeful to mislead people looking for an alternative to reddit and dump them into purposeful recreations made by those who enjoy taking younger white cis men and women, and turning them into hate filled monsters.
cato_the_elder 4y ago
Well, if it is the right that needs to evade censorship, it tells us something about who does it. > Something actually decent Which one is it?
- margalabargala 4y ago
  Do you think the reason these sites exist is to "evade censorship" as opposed to any other reason? That's quite the assumption. Would love to see some evidence. > Which one is it? The list linked is ordered, so if you count down to #5, you will find mstdn.social
  - cato_the_elder 4y ago
    > Do you think the reason these sites exist is to "evade censorship" as opposed to any other reason? I'm not sure what the other possible reasons are. Due to the network effects, you'd expect people to want to use the larger social media websites by default. And theses alternatives don't seem to offer anything special (except possibly having less censorship).
    - margalabargala 4y ago
      Four out of the top five sites on the linked list are filled with hatred towards other specific groups of people. For what it's worth, plenty of different subreddits on Reddit are also filled with hatred towards other people; just, mostly different sorts of people than these sites hate. Seems to me that Reddit tolerates hating specific sorts of people and not others, so if you hate the sorts of people that Reddit doesn't want you to hate on their platform, then one of these other sites will allow you to hate those folks together with others who share your hatred. While if you hate the sort of people that Reddit thinks it's okay to hate, then you can find others to hate together with, without leaving Reddit. On the other hand, it's easy to find communities on Reddit which have no hatred towards any other groups. The same cannot be said for the top four sites on this list.
runlevel1 4y ago
https://lobste.rs https://lobste.rs has always seemed quite nice. Only catch is that you have to be invited to create an account. Keeping the community small is probably a big factor in maintaining a high signal-to-noise ratio. There are lots of great small subreddits. Occasionally, one will become popular and it will all start to fall apart. L'enfer, c'est les autres.
- margalabargala 4y ago
  Agree that lobste.rs is great, I only looked at the first five- the site is ordered by page rank.

Let's see, from the top down I found: 1) Far-right cesspool 2) Far-right cesspool 3) Far-right cesspool 4) Anti-trans "women's community" 5) Something actually decent

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mike00632 4y ago

This was my exact thoughts

acgh213 4y ago
me as well, plus it doesn't list things like discord servers, but will list mastodon communities? just feels purposeful to mislead people looking for an alternative to reddit and dump them into purposeful recreations made by those who enjoy taking younger white cis men and women, and turning them into hate filled monsters.

cato_the_elder 4y ago

Well, if it is the right that needs to evade censorship, it tells us something about who does it. > Something actually decent Which one is it?

margalabargala 4y ago
Do you think the reason these sites exist is to "evade censorship" as opposed to any other reason? That's quite the assumption. Would love to see some evidence. > Which one is it? The list linked is ordered, so if you count down to #5, you will find mstdn.social
- cato_the_elder 4y ago
  > Do you think the reason these sites exist is to "evade censorship" as opposed to any other reason? I'm not sure what the other possible reasons are. Due to the network effects, you'd expect people to want to use the larger social media websites by default. And theses alternatives don't seem to offer anything special (except possibly having less censorship).
  - margalabargala 4y ago
    Four out of the top five sites on the linked list are filled with hatred towards other specific groups of people. For what it's worth, plenty of different subreddits on Reddit are also filled with hatred towards other people; just, mostly different sorts of people than these sites hate. Seems to me that Reddit tolerates hating specific sorts of people and not others, so if you hate the sorts of people that Reddit doesn't want you to hate on their platform, then one of these other sites will allow you to hate those folks together with others who share your hatred. While if you hate the sort of people that Reddit thinks it's okay to hate, then you can find others to hate together with, without leaving Reddit. On the other hand, it's easy to find communities on Reddit which have no hatred towards any other groups. The same cannot be said for the top four sites on this list.

runlevel1 4y ago

https://lobste.rs https://lobste.rs has always seemed quite nice. Only catch is that you have to be invited to create an account. Keeping the community small is probably a big factor in maintaining a high signal-to-noise ratio. There are lots of great small subreddits. Occasionally, one will become popular and it will all start to fall apart. L'enfer, c'est les autres.

margalabargala 4y ago
Agree that lobste.rs is great, I only looked at the first five- the site is ordered by page rank.