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Have you spent much time on "anything not illegal is allowed" forums?

Try to talk about popular movies are TV shows and you get things like this on such sites [1]. Want to discuss an episode of PBS Space Time such as this one [2]. Don't be surprised if this is the discussion you get [3].

What almost always happens on such forums is that the people there who aren't racists, sexists, antisemites, inane conspiracy theorists etc., leave, and the forum ends up being largely just such people.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201225021055/https://voat.co/v...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlXdsyctD50

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20201223123156/https://voat.co/v...



I don't think Voat is really a fair comparison.

Voat suffered from a flood of toxicity caused by Reddit banning toxic behaviors. From what I could tell, it was practically uninhabited before.

Reddit itself was largely "anything not illegal is allowed" at the time (in part due to lax enforcement of the few rules they had), and was largely fine. The toxic communities sequestered themselves for the most part.

Twitter would probably be much the same. The greater issue they'd have is the same Reddit had; it's hard to sell any advertising on a site where you can't guarantee ads won't show up next to racist/sexist/etc diatribes.


all white men are racist, sexist and antisemitic. That's patriarchy and systemic racism. You are looking for a platform without white men.


I unironically think that 4chan is better twitter, especially the smaller boards.




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