The purpose of sites like this is for people to discuss the content.

I agree

This is the capitalist version of “not real communism.”

This is why I cringe every time I see a former socialist claim to be a lolbertarian.

As a former socialist my main problem is with the people who support socialism.

I feel like I’m on Gab.

People like Jordan Peterson would have described the American Revolution as “violent” “radical leftists” attempting to destroy the centuries old monarchist hierarchy out of bitter envy for those with power.

The left likes to say “over a plant” over drug laws.

I saw “over an object” for gun laws.

All the people who went in there were morons. They were right wing useful idiots.

That said the charges for the ones who weren’t looting or attacking cops were too high.

No doubt that the alt-right wants conservatives to think that. Johnny B (conservative gun channel) on Youtube called out the police for killing Brionna Taylor and got attacked by them for it.

Unfortunately there are people who are anti racist and hate America.

You can always install your own instance of the site and have whatever rules you want for it, just be warned that uncensored alternative social network sites tend to attract white supremacists and the like.

I’m in a hard place as far as deciding how I want to moderate my site because it’s going to lean right most likely. If you make the instance openly left wing then it might not be an issue.

I might try that. Federated commenting would be incredibly useful. Unless you already have a popular blog there’s not a lot of reason for anyone to make an account just to comment.

I recently installed a Mastodon site as a pro-gun social network. I’ll probably be adding Lemmy and Friendica as part of an ecosystem for people who are pro gun but also for people who might fall into the category of “progressive Republican” or “social libertarian” so that we can have an alternate social network that isn’t filled with alt-right dipshits. Ruqqus is currently having a far-right struggle session because several of their equivalent of subreddits got banned.

I agree. The only issue I really disagree on is that he doesn’t want to add groups to Mastodon which is a pretty important feature of social networking sites.

Federation is critical to the development of alternative social networks. The reason people use specific social networks is because other people are on them. If there’s an open source social network app that isn’t federated, then everyone using sites powered by that app is isolated. With federation, all instances of the social network can interact with each other. Different instances can pop in and out of existence and the ones that stick around can become popular.

It’s better for new social networks to be federated then isolated.