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[–]send_nasty_stuff 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

but the types of "fuck jews" content you see on the frontpage is a turnoff to most people

Those people can stay on reddit or any of the multiple other mainstream heavily censored platforms available for them to use.

[–]FediNetizen 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Would you say the same thing if you stumbled across saidit in an alternate universe where loxism happened to be all over the place? Since when is anti-semitism the dominant ideology of the site?

I think you and I have different hopes for what the site will become. I hope it becomes a viable alternative to reddit that mimics the reddit we had 10 years ago.

[–]send_nasty_stuff 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Would you say the same thing if you stumbled across saidit in an alternate universe where loxism happened to be all over the place?

Yes and if loxism is prevalent the last thing I want is to have a big government or a big company or a big lobbying group hide it from me. I'm white though. My people don't have a history of living as a small group inside of larger societies and always needing to be on guard for the majority turning on them (justified or not). If I have to get a large group to protect me from critique and rhetoric then I've set myself up for living in a society with a group that secretly criticizes and plots against me. That's even worse. I'd rather people air their grievances even if those grievances insight violence against me. I will fully admit that not all people want to live in societies like that and I respect their right to live in other sovereign countries that restrict speech. I find though that most of the time it's not the weak that want to muzzle critics but the elites, the rulers. The rulers know how truly thin their control over the populace is. The right word or phrase could snowball into revolution. Revolutions can get out of control and sometime those 'utouchable' elites find their heads in baskets.

I think you and I have different hopes for what the site will become.

I think you know all un censored internet forums become dominated by dissidents. You should seriously think about why that is.

I hope it becomes a viable alternative to reddit that mimics the reddit we had 10 years ago.

That's impossible in 2020.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

those 'utouchable' elites find their heads in baskets.

And have been asking for it. When things are fair and let all boats rise, then they should have nothing to fear.

I hope SaidIt can improve on the old Reddit and strike out and be unique and different on its own.