As title asks. Looking to get people's take on this. As one of the few legitimate free speech sites I'm surprised it isn't more popular.
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Almost all of the "right wing alternatives" (which is what all free speech sites are) unfortunately fall to the problem of being only used for right wing topics, meaning its just always on politics all the time. And that just burns people out fast. You can only enjoy dunking on the Libs or someone quoting Marcus Aurelius to seem smart so many times.
Not to mention being always on politics like that inevitable leads to infighting and purity spirals, which will send a chunk of the user base away eventually. The loli and Jewish question are two big ones for any right wing site that will eventually cause a problem and require a hardline stance one way or another.
And that's just the foundational problems of them, each individual one brings its own unique problem at some point because they all seem to be run by goofy guys that eventually fuck something up.
Pretty much all social media is about politics any more though, with varying degrees of humor and censorship between them. Go on social media that’s predominantly leftist, or censors the right heavily and it’s still politics, just with more leftist garbage being promoted. The reason you don’t find leftists on true free-speech social media sites is because their views are all shaped by propaganda that isn’t based on facts or reality, so yeah, by default they run away to protect their programmed minds from conflicting truths.. I agree that infighting is a problem in purely right wing spaces, but that’s because we have a wide variety of views, unlike the cookie cutter leftists who can’t stray at all from the hive mind without being labelled a nazi and ostracized from their friends.
There is a difference between overt politics and political undercurrent.
For example, posting about most video games on Twitter is likely to have pretty neutral responses unless there is a major controversy around it. Posting about it even on a place like here will have people scrambling to find a way to declare it Woke and lambast it, and you, for playing it.
This is completely possible to happen on the mainstream sites too, but they are big enough that its drowned out by the random noise of a busy area while the "free speech alternatives" will self-select to make those types the majority and give you no room to breathe.
I don't say this as hate towards these sites or people, only that its a major factor in why their reach is limited and more likely to slowly fade rather than grow.
Its simpler than that. They literally don't have to be. Their views are rarely in threat, so they can stick with the biggest sites without fear.
That's the reason all "free speech" alternatives just become right wing hangouts, because those are the types of views that need extra protection to be allowed. Especially extreme right wing views, which is why its usually a den of Jew posting on top of it.
Idk how you guys pull excerpts of a comment out and reply to those specific parts, but for what you said about “it being simpler” than what I said, yeah it’s true, they don’t need to run away from mainstream social media sites, but they did once Elon took over Twitter, and for the reasons I stated, their views were under attack with community notes and uncensored right wing viewpoints, so a lot of them chose to leave in order to protect their programmed viewpoints.
You copy and paste it after a ">" with a space manually.
Positions outside the Overton window are more likely to be held by highly volatile individuals.