News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Reddit alternative Ruqqus shutting down.

Re:Reddit alternative Ruqqus shutting down by Computeiful on Monday October 25, 2021 @08:57PM (#28995177)
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.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Reddit alternative Ruqqus shutting down by Legion on Monday October 25, 2021 @09:08PM (#28995226)
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.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Reddit alternative Ruqqus shutting down by exogeny on Monday October 25, 2021 @09:04PM (#28995207)
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.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Reddit alternative Ruqqus shutting down by throwaway0a5e on Monday October 25, 2021 @09:59PM (#28995578)
>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.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Reddit alternative Ruqqus shutting down by LudwigNagasena on Monday October 25, 2021 @09:13PM (#28995266)
“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…
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Reddit alternative Ruqqus shutting down by Karrot_Kream on Monday October 25, 2021 @09:16PM (#28995278)
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/

[2]: https://tildes.net/

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Reddit alternative Ruqqus shutting down by webmaven on Monday October 25, 2021 @11:46PM (#28996187)
> 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.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Reddit alternative Ruqqus shutting down by Karrot_Kream on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @12:45AM (#28996492)
> 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

[ Parent | on HN ]