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All of these "alternatives" suck. Whether you believe in censorship or not (I don't), building a no-censorship alternative to a major media platform mostly attracts the people who were censored because of truly abhorrent content. Gab and voat suck because 90% of the content is extremist bullshit.

The development community needs to stop building "alternatives", with the hope that they become the next big thing, and go back to building things that we want to use ourselves.

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>content is extremist bullshit.

Mainly just right+ extremists. No need to beat around the bush.

That's only because the left+ extremists are tolerated, if not condoned, on the SV run platforms.

That's probably because they're not posting abhorrent content.

Probably because left+ extremists don't inherently have dehumanization and genocide as part of their political and moral beliefs. You can disagree with economic allocation theories, but it's really not appropriate to compare the two.

Yes, the only thing they have going for them is that the initial factor they use for putting someone against the wall is economic and not race based. They still put innocent people against the wall. How is this not clear to you?

>How is this not clear to you?

Because it's objectively a straw man and isn't based on anything except your ideological preconceptions?

>the initial factor they use for putting someone against the wall is economic and not race based.

* Huge citation needed

Citation? Lenin, Stalin, Mao, three generations of Kims, Guevara, Castro, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Min. All murdered massive amounts of their own people for not being communist.

>go back to building things that we want to use ourselves.

Isn't this exactly what Gab is though? It was built from the ground up to house a very specific type of content being banned on Twitter.

We might not agree with what they're doing or who uses it but it is exactly an example of a developer scratching their own itch.

Gab was billed as a "free speech Twitter alt" by it's founders. The people looking for that platform happened to be the folks that have turned it into alt-right Twitter.

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