So I get you are making a distributed reddit alternative. I read that most of you are left politically. You also view reddit as right politically. Which is interesting because I view reddit as left politically in fact extreme left but not as extreme as you are here. Given that reddit has purged many right people and those people have now attempted to also make reddit alternatives like ruqqus, saidit, .win, I get from their perspective they want more freedom which is to basically not have their speech deleted. Then on the left there seems an obsession to silence anyone or thing they don’t like, which I feel I am running that risk just typing this. So if lemmy feels reddit is not left enough as in the words of your comrade nutomic “reddit is far right”, to which i completely disagree but lets play with it, if reddit is not left enough I take it you mean it is not deleting and censoring enough? To which if lemmy is being created as a solution to that then I think the point of lemmy is to allow and enable even more censorship? I have to say if this is the point of lemmy that is both scary and stupid, scary that people think more censorship is in fact needed and stupid in that people would think more censorship is in fact needed, no well I just wanted to type that but stupid in that they need to make a new platform to enable more censorship, like wow.

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    4 years ago

    Censoring racists is cool and good, I wish reddit actually did that instead of letting it fester for years until people point out that multiple mass shooters and hate crimes were committed by people radicalized to hate minorities on reddit. Reddit is then forced to remove those communities because of the bad PR their shareholders don’t want to be burdened with.

    What value is there in “debating” whether X race should exist or not? Below you defend multiple white supremacist platforms like voat, ruqqus, thedonald.

    Again, lemmy is not a free speech platform, we don’t allow bigots or hate speech. If the only “point” of a reddit alternative for you is to be able to say those things, even reddit is going to be a better platform than this for you, as they allow all kinds of hate speech we would never allow here.

    • forgotmylastusername@lemmy.ml
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      4 years ago

      Users like OP make money for reddit which is why they allow it to fester. It drives clicks and views which translates to valuation. Same goes for every other social platform. It’s commonly referred to as “valuable discussion” but really that’s just coporate jargon. This whole social media experiment has been a sort of gradient search for monetizing hate speech.

      As long as users keep on dancing on puppet strings, corporate is grinning from ear to ear as the slot machine bells ring away and coins continuously tumble out the machine.

      • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
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        4 years ago

        Users like OP make money for reddit which is why they allow it to fester.

        Bingo! It’s money, not political affiliation, that drive commercial websites.

    • Stoned_Ape@lemmy.ml
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      4 years ago

      Censoring racists is cool

      From Wikipedia :

      Coolness is an aesthetic of attitude, behavior, comportment, appearance and style which is generally admired. Because of the varied and changing connotations of cool, as well as its subjective nature, the word has no single meaning. It has associations of composure and self-control and often is used as an expression of admiration or approval. Although commonly regarded as slang, it is widely used among disparate social groups and has endured in usage for generations.

      • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
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        4 years ago

        Fine. It’s not “cool”. We’ll say it’s beneficial for society and especially the marginalized groups racism is meant to abuse. Happy?

    • AshliMeachem@lemmy.mlOP
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      4 years ago

      The thing is if you segment the racist from the main community and then they just go form another, probably with a new instance of lemmy what do you think is going to happen? They are going to be more radicalized because opposing views become totally gone. Then you get more shootings. I thought the shootings were connected to 8chan and facebook ?

      There should be no value in debating the existence or nonexistence of any race but you can debate differences in races because there is differences (did I just commit a thought crime saying that?).

      I defend voat, ruqqus, thedonald because they allow speech not because they are white supremacist, which they are not, except well voat is…

      So I am getting mixed messages, on one side apparently instances can do what every they want then on the other lemmy is only going to allow certain speech? So does that mean lemmy can, will or will try control instances some how? hard code in certain filters?