the “no censorship” part is already being weaponized by Nazis.
Yeah, this is the inevitable result with any app that tries the no censorship schtick. It happens every single time, obviously this time won’t be any different.
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mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days agoMy big concern right now is actually the fact that the “no censorship” part is already being weaponized by Nazis. I suspect it will quickly fall prey to the Nazi Bar Problem. I gave the app a fair shot. Opened it up, and the very first post was a “the Jews are secretly running the world” post from an account named something like @ItsAlwaysTheJews. It had a caricature of a Jew (big nose, long sideburns, and yarmulka) reaching out of a TV to steal a watcher’s brain.
Okay, not a great first impression, but that’s inevitable on a free speech app. Let’s keep scrolling. Three or four more posts down, and I was met with a “Hitler was right about the jews” post. Yikes. The fact that those were up front and center (on the default “Ranked” sort) for my brand new account was… Not a great sign.
GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 days ago
Jesus fucking Christ.
jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
Holy crap that’s even worse than I thought. I tried making an account just to check it out myself even though I’m not at all interested in the service itself, but their email verification emails just never come through even though I tried several times (I’m using Proton, and no they didn’t end up in spam). Seems like I’m much better off, never having to come into contact with… that.
So this isn’t even a “from the frying pan into a slightly cooler frying pan” situation, but more like “from the frying pan into the open core of a nuclear reactor”. I wouldn’t be surprised if this even further radicalises Americans