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These free-speech reddit clones always seem to descend to far-right Nazism. Maybe you have to ban all political discussion to survive as a reddit clone on the m

These free-speech reddit clones always seem to descend to far-right Nazism. Maybe you have to ban all political discussion to survive as a reddit clone on the modern internet.

exogeny 5y ago
That's the catch, though. For their extremely broken brains, everything is political discussion. Talking about finance? Well, who do you think controls the world's money? And on and on. Note to dang/admin: I'm sure it is clear that I am being illustrative of a hateful argument, but I am happy to redact.
- LudwigNagasena 5y ago
  “The personal is political” attitude is not something that was invented on the right. I doubt it is comparatively more popular there. It is strange to accuse them of that…
- throwaway0a5e 5y ago
  >For their extremely broken brains, everything is political discussion. If I had a nickle for every not dead comment on HN saying "everything is political" (though it seems to be in a lull these past couple months) I could get a pizza delivered a couple times a week.
Legion 5y ago
It's weird how these "free speech" social media sites always seem to have just as much moderation (if not more) than mainstream platforms, just with a big exception carved out for far-right fascist topics.
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Karrot_Kream 5y ago
There are many left and far-left forums out there too, though yeah they aren't billed as "free speech" clones. Lemmy [1] is an explicitly leftist friendly type of forum and Tildes [2] while not explicitly leftist is in practice very leftist. There are as many communities out there as there are strands to human thought I imagine. [1]: https://lemmy.ml/ https://lemmy.ml/ [2]: https://tildes.net/ https://tildes.net/
- webmaven 5y ago
  > There are many left and far-left forums out there too, though yeah they aren't billed as "free speech" clones. I'm reasonably sure that in far left forums, though you can (for example) find quite a bit of antisemitism and similar toxic opinions, you won't get a lot of "Stalin was Right" memes, or admiration for the Khmer Rouge. There is a qualitative and quantitative difference between the extremes of the right and left in US political discourse as well as the amount of cover the mainstream is willing to extend.
  - Karrot_Kream 5y ago
    > you won't get a lot of "Stalin was Right" memes, or admiration for the Khmer Rouge. You definitely do. Take a look at this Tankie community on Lemmygrad [1]. You'll also find a lot of denial about Uigyuhr genocide on behalf of China and a lot of revisionism about the atrocities of both the Soviet Union's military interventions and its pogroms. [1]: https://lemmygrad.ml/c/fullcommunism https://lemmygrad.ml/c/fullcommunism

These free-speech reddit clones always seem to descend to far-right Nazism. Maybe you have to ban all political discussion to survive as a reddit clone on the modern internet.

exogeny 5y ago

That's the catch, though. For their extremely broken brains, everything is political discussion. Talking about finance? Well, who do you think controls the world's money? And on and on. Note to dang/admin: I'm sure it is clear that I am being illustrative of a hateful argument, but I am happy to redact.

LudwigNagasena 5y ago
“The personal is political” attitude is not something that was invented on the right. I doubt it is comparatively more popular there. It is strange to accuse them of that…
throwaway0a5e 5y ago
>For their extremely broken brains, everything is political discussion. If I had a nickle for every not dead comment on HN saying "everything is political" (though it seems to be in a lull these past couple months) I could get a pizza delivered a couple times a week.

Legion 5y ago

It's weird how these "free speech" social media sites always seem to have just as much moderation (if not more) than mainstream platforms, just with a big exception carved out for far-right fascist topics.

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Karrot_Kream 5y ago

There are many left and far-left forums out there too, though yeah they aren't billed as "free speech" clones. Lemmy [1] is an explicitly leftist friendly type of forum and Tildes [2] while not explicitly leftist is in practice very leftist. There are as many communities out there as there are strands to human thought I imagine. [1]: https://lemmy.ml/ https://lemmy.ml/ [2]: https://tildes.net/ https://tildes.net/

webmaven 5y ago
> There are many left and far-left forums out there too, though yeah they aren't billed as "free speech" clones. I'm reasonably sure that in far left forums, though you can (for example) find quite a bit of antisemitism and similar toxic opinions, you won't get a lot of "Stalin was Right" memes, or admiration for the Khmer Rouge. There is a qualitative and quantitative difference between the extremes of the right and left in US political discourse as well as the amount of cover the mainstream is willing to extend.
- Karrot_Kream 5y ago
  > you won't get a lot of "Stalin was Right" memes, or admiration for the Khmer Rouge. You definitely do. Take a look at this Tankie community on Lemmygrad [1]. You'll also find a lot of denial about Uigyuhr genocide on behalf of China and a lot of revisionism about the atrocities of both the Soviet Union's military interventions and its pogroms. [1]: https://lemmygrad.ml/c/fullcommunism https://lemmygrad.ml/c/fullcommunism