Please don't post snarky one-liners to HN, least of all on divisive topics, where the guidelines ask you to be more thoughtful and substantive, not less.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Historically, the nazis were neither liberal (favoring liberty and broadly-shared social/economic development) nor conservative (favoring the preservation of existing social arrangements). What they were was radically authoritarian, totalitarian, irrationalistic (the one key feature that might license us comparing recent political developments worldwide to naziism!), and engaged in the pursuit of war, militant politics, violence and State-managed, systematic violence - generally associated with extreme and utter demonization of all sorts of 'unwanted' social outgroups. (We nowadays see such demonization and routine violence being practiced by e.g. non-State actors such as ISIL, but not so much in mainstream politics, thankfully!)

Even if this were what was originally said... both groups as so large that at the edges there really is no much difference. Antifa may not5 like nazis, but only because both are competing for the same ecological niche.

He did nothing of the sort. And his assessment is correct. Mastodon, and federated social networks, are the wrong direction for social media. I don't understand how more people don't see this; open-source or not, walled gardens only worsen polarization and demonization of the "other side".

nice job missing the point that free speech is good even if you dont like it.