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You've missed the point of the metaphor. "Nazi bar" is just colorful language for "shitty people who end up pushing the non-shitty people out simply by being wh
by kstenerud 4y ago
You've missed the point of the metaphor. "Nazi bar" is just colorful language for "shitty people who end up pushing the non-shitty people out simply by being who they are." Any hate group of any political stripes can qualify.
This is a well-studied phenomenon by now:
- New social media site becomes popular.
- Lots of people, including shitty-group people, join up en masse.
- Shitty-group people do their shitty stuff and piss the rest of the people off.
- Site management does nothing.
- Non-shitty people start to leave because they don't want to deal with this shit.
- Eventually, your population is now mostly shitty-group people.
- You as the site owner are branded as part of that shitty-group (regardless of whether you really are or not).
- Advertisers flee because they don't want their reputations tarnished.
- Your site loses money and popularity and becomes irrelevant.
This isn't some podcaster sounding off to grind his own axe about moderation; this is an interviewer trying to get through to an inexperienced CEO about the major cliff he's about to fall over, driven by market forces because he doesn't understand his customers or the industry.