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The tone went from rough-and-tumble, big tent libertarianism to hate filled right wing politics. From weird and funny to stupid and rude. I didn't want to be
by gopher_space 3y ago
The tone went from rough-and-tumble, big tent libertarianism to hate filled right wing politics. From weird and funny to stupid and rude. I didn't want to be contaminated by that thinking or have my name associated with it, so I moved to Reddit where eventually the same thing happened.
There's some kind of Godwin's Law corollary here that revolves around whether your board removes "I'm just asking questions" posts or not.
- mattbee 3y agoI don't see Reddit as one place like Slashdot was one place. I'm sure it still has horrific subs, but the ones I'm on are little islands of well-moderated chit-chat, local jokes and retro-computing.