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ziq wrote (edited )

Good politics.

The people that are here have good politics, so all the people with bad politics are too intimidated to post.

People are used to reddit / facebook echo chambers where anything that contradicts their insular worldview is instantly purged from sight.

They did try to bring their circlejerk cults to raddle a few times (kicking up a ton of drama when they were met with resistance), but they eventually retreated back to their venomous faux-radical 19th century echo chambers rather than allow themselves to grow politically and abandom their toxic politics and ahistorical, unscientific roleplaying.

Going beyond communists / socialists tho...

The entry barrier on raddle is super high. Most people are unwilling to do the work to meet it, and know they'll feel completely exposed as soon as they say something ignorant or bigotted, or even just naive.

We'll go through great lengths to avoid damaging our egos, so posting in a place this worldly and aware is a hard ask. It's very intimidating to people that don't dedicate their lives to thinking about the world's problems like we do.

My partner said something like we spend too much time focusing on problems and not enough on solutions. But I don't know how to find solutions when most of the problems are well outside our field of influence. And just not talking about the problems or identifying them seems even worse than failing to solve them.

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urg3t0ki11r151ng wrote

I agree. In my case there are loads of interesting submissions but to comment on it and have something valuable to say is another thing. So most of my interaction is lurk and vote.

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ziq wrote

It's always good to hear from lurkers, to try and understand your needs.

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SNABSjwkajs wrote

The entry barrier on raddle is super high

Not as high as right wing "free speech" sites like voat that impliment minimum karma amounts that are really high just to post or downvote.

You guys have done a good job at least allowing decent to come here imo, but the issue is you guys ban it more often than not. Disagreeing and calling it out ia fine, but outright bans are not going to make other opinions want to come

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