alt Hacker NewsOption A: You occasionally encounter power tripping mods on a site where you are free to create your own community and become the mod yourself.
Option B: a power tripping drug-addled Nazi billionaire owns the entire site and can change the site behavior for every user on a whim, with no recourse.
This doesn’t seem like a hard choice to make.
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dist-epoch • today at 1:28 PM
> a power tripping drug-addled Nazi billionaire
Are you anti-drugs? Do you think drug users are bad people or using drugs is condemnable? I'm asking because anti-fascists are typically pro-drugs. So I'm confused.
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An echo chamber isn’t inherently bad, and moderation is required to maintain any semblance of a well functioning online community.
Reddit can be good if you stay in your niche and off the default subs. Twitter is good if you similarly curate your experience and don’t let it push you into garbage.
I don’t use either much anymore.