• Waylander [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    While some of these websites (like Gab or Ruqqus) were designed from the get-go to be as vile as possible, I get the impression that a good number of these founders were naive libertarians who ended up biting off more than they could chew. People who thought “Reddit used to be good when there weren’t as many rules.”

    Can't remember where I read this, but there's a quote that neatly sums it up along the lines of: If you start a community in the middle of nowhere, and your only rule is 'no witch burnings', you end up with two principled libertarians and fifty million witches.