the site you are imagining, the supposed free speech site? it converges to gab. this dynamic is basic and I can’t take you seriously if you don’t get this.

• nazis are encouraged to be equal voices on a platform
• they use the platform’s reach to radicalize fence sitters
• other users, realizing their digital roommates are Nazis, are alarmed and leave
• now it’s a nazi site

what exactly do you think substack will consist of in two years if they don’t do a 180? the entire reason we’re having this conversation right now is that a bunch of substack writers said they would rather leave than hang out with nazis