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[–]wuzizname 16 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Nah. Let's just make this a good community with free speech. We will inevitably have to address the real nazi people who are out there looking for a nest to roost in. Voat didn't do such a good job.

Otherwise, I honestly think that a massive site like Reddit is unsustainable, it has been in operation since... what... 2006 and I don't think it has ever posted a profitable year without major cash infusion from investors who each time made the site a little bit worse than before.

The internet is best when it's DECENTRALIZED, that was the whole point of the WWW. We'd be in a much better place if we had 50 different websites instead of 1 giant website umbrella controlling 50 different subs. At the end of the day, every website hoping to attract ad revenue big enough to support that level of infrastructure will have to be censored and sterilized because brands don't want to take the chance of having their ads serve beside or within content that is ... unsavory.

[–]Cindy 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

We will inevitably have to address the real nazi people who are out there looking for a nest to roost in. Voat didn't do such a good job.

The ticket is to post and vote content that is apolitical. Post funny memes, interesting news stories (not about American politics), discussions about your favorite movies and games, etc. This will attract a more "normal" crowd which will make the site much more appealing. No need to censor the Nazis if they aren't dominating the entirety of the site.

[–]zeusdx1118 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This will attract a more "normal" crowd

Or it will just attract kids, who are assholes online and have messed up mind sets of their own.