Websites like Mastodon, diaspora or Lemmy are all extremely leftist. Same with group chats like Element. Yet these websites and apps were all created with anonymity and security in mind. Is it all a front for pedophilia? Somehow, I doubt it.
I actually think leftists are so delusional they think promoting woke values is somehow something they need to take precautions over despite the only people getting arrested by governments are right-wingers.
That is ofc unless the leftists are plotting assassinations of presidents like Trump or school shootings...
Kinda crazy. I also find it crazy that right-wingers take virtually no precautions online.
The right-wingers who take anonymity and security seriously aren't online.
I don't think that's true. The internet has become ubiquitous, you'd be hard pressed to function within society without any access to it.
I think he just means they aren't posting about right wing issues or discussing right wing stuff online. They're still using the internet just not for online discussions.
It's probably not far off the truth.
I don't post on X or like anything anymore. I found when I was I got banned. Scored is the last place I bother to post replies to. Anyone else where I can freely type would have me banned nearly instantly. I stopped making new Reddit accounts and just used a banned account to browse.
Actual right wingers have a hard time participating online except lurking so they probably don't actively even bother to try anymore.
Yeah, I think it's less dropping out and more what you and u/undecidedmask2 outline. Platforms just won't allow right wing thought to be posted on them. It's people getting driven off rather than simply going offline for opsec. Not quite the same thing.
Probably a mix of banning right wingers the second they get any power, the forums being hosted on left wing sites, a few are certainly paranoid that the Feds are out to get them, while the rest simply don’t want the world to know who they are.
I’m sure there’s a porn reason as well. Can’t be using your Reddit account with who you are attached to what they’re using to browse porn.
It's probably like 80% so that no one knows what porn they're watching, seriously.
early adopters love technology.
reddit initially supported Tor connectivity and was a bastion for free speech.
bait and switch.
I’m betting the tranny hormone black market is a factor. Trannytifa as well. Otherwise leftists like using the new hipster shit, so of course “anarchosocialist” wannabes are going to circle jerk about their super secret group chat where they fantasize about how edgy they are.
ugh you reminded me of when I used to go to a ruby group on Meetup.
Being unemployed means you have more time to dabble in unemployed behavior.
The right, by and large, aren't tech savvy. Even this forum, the gaming threads are pretty inactive, and the tech subs are all basically dead.
Wonder why Linux was taken over, gaming, blogging, just about everything tech related. It's because nobody on the right was interested in safeguarding this stuff in the first place. The right are technologically illiterate, and commies require safe spaces where they can't be tracked to spread their hate and CP.
And the "right" aren't power savvy either. Leftists naturally take over because everyone else just doesn't stop them.
Find stories that trigger leftists to care about privacy:
https://www.404media.co/footage-shows-cop-stalking-woman-he-met-on-a-tv-set-after-surveilling-her-with-a-license-plate-reader/
rogue cops harassing women
restrictions against hobby abortions/diy trans kits/marijuana
That's a big part of of it. Those NPCs programmed with Fortune 500-approved belief sets still think they're "the resistance".
Back in 08, and 12 I remember more right leaning folks would shill for Walmart and BP oil. It was the same story but with a different flavor.
I distinctly remember a conservative youtuber that I used to watch railing against the liberals who hated Walmart becase it was destroying smaller businesses by importing cheap goods from China and selling them at prices that smaller markets couldn't afford to compete with. Ultimately hollowing out towns and turning them into corpo slop strip mall centers.
Now here we are in total agreement with that argument...
Right wingers know that if their subject to scrutiny than any attempts to conceal their identity or protect their privacy it'll be submitted as evidence of nefarious deeds and they'll just circumvent them anyways because that right winger is hiding something so no amount of breaching their privacy is too far.
I would say thats because they ban right wingers but others already touched on that so I will go in a different angle.
Hostorically, there was only a small contingent of right wingers who cared about freedom from the state. Con.inc/GOP is essentially a Zionist corporatist faction that shills for (((Hollywood))) , (((copyright laws))), the CEOs, military, police, etc.
Its only within the last few years that this political ideology has begun to splinter, thanks in large part to the outrageous trump admin failures.
Hating the corpos, the zogbots, has traditionally been a leftist thing, and it was wielded by the jews to keep the right solidly aligned behind israel, and jewish power centers.
Just look at patriots.lose and this sub. If it wasn't for us openly being racist, it would be similar to any traditionally liberal forum that hates oil corpos, healthcare ceos, military industrial complex, the boots of the state, israel, etc.
There is a youtuber called Reid Henrichs, former Marine veteran, combat instructor, and political activist. He is one of the few that I would classify as a true right wing anarchist. But you won't see him shilling for the military, Trump or any GOP politicians.
We hate all those things because they're so zogged.
Because of MKUltra. Leftists are more easily manipulated because they are gullible which makes it easier to brainwash them. These "security" sites are all monitored, because they were meant to by design, because it's all a lie, a honeypot. They are apps for the narcissistic with delusions of grandeur.
Well it's simple. They want power so they go where they can get the most. They probably still spout empty platitudes like ACAB and "only good cop is a dead one" when it suits them.
"Why does the government only allow and promote anti-government groups that aligns with their values?"
Like really dude? What kind of question is this lol
I've looked into all that federated stuff and what not, but honestly if I were going to do some sort of online community of my own it would probably be something as simple as phpBB hosted in Russia and paid for in crypto and I'd massively gate keep it. If it's my forum, I am the king. End of discussion. Maybe I'm a benevolent dictator, but I'm still the ruler. Somehow that all worked better. You kicked someone from a game server because they were unenjoyable to play with. That was it. The king does not want you here. It never had to come to "oooo he said my penis made me a man but I'm clearly a woman because I say so and he used the forbidden word to refer to our great angelic people of color."
Sometimes what's new isn't what's better. Duplicating a social media platform that led to our downfall in a more secure way is still a social media platform that led to our downfall. I don't even like scored, I hate the concept of having a shared account, because you see what happened with Reddit. I really only post here, and if tomorrow it was announced it was moving to usenet and IRC, it wouldn't hurt my feelings.
Nonody here seems to know the real answer. It's because of Illegal or near illegal porn. Simple as that.