The community platform I'm building was linked in a Voat thread about alternatives to move to, which led to a bit of traffic a few days ago. A number of people (20+) signed up but haven't posted any voat-like content yet.<p>I suppose the focus on tech/code and lack of political content dissuaded them completely. Good!
Sad but hardly surprising in 2020 how "news" sites inject provably false, political ideology into straightforward news stories.<p>>Parler is not necessarily extremist but skews heavily partisan, drawing mostly conservative and right-wing users based on false claims that other social media sites "censor" conservative views for political reasons<p>There's no dispute that social media cites censor conservatives for their political views (as well as independents, liberals and anyone else who sings a tune that doesn't align with their chosen political narrative). Whether its the NY Post or the World Socialist Website, political censorship on social media (and elsewhere) is ubiquitous. Its a shame so few outlets are capable of reporting straight news without injecting their chosen political narrative (false or otherwise).