What is it tonight with the low effort posts trying to drive those who use telegram and reddit to right wing / hateful alternatives? I'll make a guess and that it's related to roe v wade and the political climate, especially with those insanely pro life, and by statistical chance, republican, aren't being welcomed on left leaning sites. So those people think this "rejection" is happening to everyone, when that is a flat out falsehood.

Its the "reality has a left leaning bias" and its being met with the same attempts to indoctrinate people towards hate. The only group of people who would feel quote 'persecuted' unquote are those who hold hateful and bigoted views.

I don't think theres anything majorly wrong with redditlikes/twitterlikes/federated mastadon sites. But the moment I see a random site telling me to use alternatives that only promote hateful views, I don't see it as valid. Regardless of the data used, sites like Gab shouldn't be given a spotlight since they refuse to even federate with other Mastadon servers.

I don't even want to get into how Gab is clearly a cesspool [1], the next two sites listed are 4chan twitter analogues, and the overite page is the terfs who were banned from reddit.

In this day and age, a reddit clone isn't the same as a digg clone. A reddit clone is mostly a "refuge" (rdrama being a great example counter to my terf/bigot point) for those who are banned from reddit. In reddits history, the only subreddits who get outright banned are those like /r/cringetopia /r/fatpeoplehate /r/thedonald

Communities that promote hate. And seeing such a clearly bad list on hacker news, I had to speak up.

[1]https://www.npr.org/2018/10/28/661532688/a-look-at-gab-the-f...