Albatr0ss

That sounds good to me in that case. Thanks for the response!

Any chance you could state your views on "free speech" vs fostering civilised discourse?

Will you let bigoted, hateful, or nasty comments slide, if that means all views are being presented?

I'm not coming to this with any pre-formed opinions btw, I'm just wanting to see something stated clearly about how you intend to moderate, given the comments below :-)

Personally speaking, I'm not looking to hang out with people who got banned from other social media for spreading misinformation and hate. If this community is going to be a place where people like that are welcome, I will frankly feel unwelcome and would rather get out now.

I'm of the view that Reddit is currently hurtling itself towards becoming a far-right cesspool, and their recent changes will only exacerbate that. I'm trying to get away from that, I don't want to be part of another community that will do the same thing.

To be rather pedantic - at the moment, 10 posts here out of 48 have the word "Nazi" in them (including yours), and most of those are in reply to a post containing the word, so most are in context.

Differing opinions are good even if extreme.

Differing opinions like us having this discussion right now, or on mundane stuff like where the best coffee is in whatever city? Sure. Differing opinions on whether x-group of people are subhuman, or whether a terrorist's manifesto is good reading? No.

Agreed

Nice!

Btw, if you are the same Mr Palmer who did such glorious work during the Wellington Shitparade of Morons, I thankyou for your service.

I totally agree with you. Genuine participation > growth for the sake of growth.

(Long-time reddit user, and former IRC (and ICQ!) user here too)

This is way too idealist though. It would be nice if it happened that way, but in reality (and to continue the metaphor) the Nazi will just bring all their Nazi mates to the normal bar, drive minorities away, smash some shit, and turn the normal bar into another Nazi bar that recruits more Nazis.

The people who come to online communities with far-right (in this case) extremist ideals aren't doing so with the possibility of changing their mind. They want more eyeballs on their horrible ideas so that they spread - and turn from online hate to real-life hate.

It's exactly how we end up with stuff like the riots at parliament, and LGBT youth centres getting burned down. It starts online.

Agreed. Letting everyone have an equal say just leads to shitty online forums (Facebook, Stuff comments for example) where misinformation gets spread easily, and hateful content is propagated. I don't want to see that happening here.

I'll be doing the same. I'm still getting used to Lemmy, but it seems like a pretty good alternative so far. Smaller and more confusing (initially) perhaps. But it's better than me sticking with spending too much time on Reddit.