Ask HN: What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg?

Re:Ask HN: What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg? by charcuterie on Sunday November 22, 2020 @09:17PM (#25182980)

Ruqqus[0]. Its Reddit with a focus on anti-censorship. It was launched in 2019, so the community is not quite mature yet.

As you can probably guess, it is a truly hateful place.

Practically speaking it is essentially (from my observation) a safe space for racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, covid denial, dangerous conspiracy theories, misinformation, etc.

I hesitate to bring attention to the site at all because I don’t want the hate to proliferate, but I suppose it is better to know this exists rather than letting it incubate hate under the radar.

Edit: I also want to say I think anti-censorship is noble and Ruqqus, as a technology, is pretty well done. I think building a non-hateful community on Ruqqus would elevate it to be better than Reddit.

[0]: https://github.com/ruqqus/ruqqus

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Re:Ask HN: What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg? by raptorraver on Monday November 23, 2020 @01:54AM (#25184200)

I was hopeful when I first heard of Ruqqus ("reddit without censorship!") but after a visit I just realized that it's too toxic place to visit without going mad. We humans make good ideas turn so so bad.

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Re:Ask HN: What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg? by thatguy0900 on Monday November 23, 2020 @04:10PM (#25191950)

Reddit needs a digg moment to make all the normal users leave. There's no reason for anyone to leave reddit unless they're being censored and at the moment reddit isn't really censoring very much

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Re:Ask HN: What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg? by catacombs on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @01:29PM (#25212497)

> Its Reddit with a focus on anti-censorship.

"anti-censorship" is just a euphemism for a place where someone can say the N-word without being banned.

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