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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/

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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.

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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

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