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I wish they excluded extremes on both sides of the spectrum. Otherwise, it makes Cabal seem like a Parler for the extreme left.

(Maybe it is not; I know nothing about people behind Cabal.)

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Obvious conclusion since everything that isn't far-right is far-left. /s

More like anyone who's willing to condemn one extreme but not the other is almost certainly supporting the latter.

I'm a Sanders supporter and as Left as it gets but there is serious denial about the past 6 months of coordinated violence in major city cores from militant groups that claimed to speak for me. We have a problem with Big Tech and sectarian violence in this country no matter which way you look at it.

As an insider do you see the current level of censorship from Big Tech to make the situation worse, better, or do you feel it doesn't matter?

Thanks for this, from a friend on the other side of the political spectrum.

One problem is that if you're not on the extremes, why do you need a new p2p chat app? If I have mainstream opinions then mainstream apps probably work just fine.

There's plenty of reasons to avoid the "mainstream" apps that have nothing to do with your political views. Decentralization, control over your own data, lack of intrusive advertising, informational hygiene, and privacy are good enough reasons by themselves.

Not being supportive of blatant censorship is a pretty good reason for normal people

One say you might say something controversial which was mainstream the day before. Fast times we're living in.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25718992.

Why is excluding the far-right a thing associated specifically with the far-left? Would politically moderate people not also want to exclude eg. Nazis?

> Would politically moderate people not also want to exclude eg. Nazis?

They do.

But I would say take a look at dating apps in California, for example, and see just how many people are telling Moderates and Independents to stay the hell away from them.

Being in the middle is great for lobbying because your ideas are bipartisan and nothing else is getting through Congress, but for real life right now, its extremes only.

Because the definition of Nazi is applied so liberally that Winston Churchill himself would receive the label from those who use it in today's discourse.

I don’t think the fact that some people call everybody nazis should lead us to decide that actual nazis are now OK.

I don't trust that your definition of an "actual nazi" isn't significantly colored by your own prejudices. That we could actually agree on who are the extremists in society who are equally damaging.

The comment you are replying to does not even attempt to make that judgement. Use your own definition if you'd like.

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