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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by heavyset_go on Saturday June 27, 2020 @09:40PM (#23666164)
The chans are the exception, and not the rule. Most normal human beings don't use any of the chans, but there are tens of tens of millions of subscribers to the online conservative spaces on Reddit and Facebook, and they're all ban happy.
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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by Acrobatic_Road on Saturday June 27, 2020 @11:01PM (#23666471)
Another popular story today was about parler, a twitter clone which allows mostly all legal speech besides obscenity. It may be a conservative safe space, but its not ban happy.

You can read their speech policy: https://legal.parler.com/documents/guidelines.pdf

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