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On the front page I'm seeing a post by an user named "Hitler_Was_Right". Totally promising and interesting platform with lots of insightful minds contributing to the marketplace of ideas!
The bane of almost every open-source, decentralized link agreggator is their weird obsession with absolute freedom of speech that just attracts the most toxic, whatever-phobic people.
there will be many papers written on this phenomenon.
Do you think its just link aggregators or also forms of other social media?
Nah, it's all forms of social media. You see the same thing on those weird Fediverse servers, but it's got a big reputation with link aggregators thanks to Voat.
Its not just one Post but multiple from them on the frontpage. Also other posts and comments confirm a right wing leading.
Yes I have also noticed a few attacks on other networks like Scuttlebutt. An interesting point I picked up there, and did not really think a lot about, is that apparently many social networks are classified as to where they lie on the US political spectrum, and that can then mean they are good or bad ;-) As a non-American, I did not know that classification was a thing...
I'm a non-american (argentinian), and don't really feel comfortable sharing a platform with literal white supremacists.
As a non-American, I don't see pointing out a white supremacist user as an attack towards a platform.
The last sentence of your earlier response definitely suggested you were judging the platform based on that one user though.
You didn't even say what the person said, just left people to guess based on the username (for all we know it's a left wing radical doing the internet equivalent of performance art), people just can't tell without context.
If you look at that user's post history, it's far from "the internet equivalent of performance art".
Racial supremacy and misogyny are not just american though. They're valid divides on the political spectrum in most regions/cultures. But i agree with you "liberal" is a very weird term that in for example french context means rather conservative, because pro-business...
Who classifies that?
Basic user comments about a network that I see on other networks - many are quick to label a network as liberal and conservative, which I gather are generally attributed to US politics (we don't refer to our parties by those terms at least - just a party name is used). I'm pretty sure sites themselves are not one or the other, but seems many users judge by posts or comments they see and then are quick to label a site.
Sites themselves are one or the other, they have specific moderation teams that get instructions how to moderate (or not moderate). These rules do in themselves have political meaning. Not just in the US, but everywhere.
You forgot the "/s" for sarcasm
Hilarious.
are you serious?