I am not criticizing them, I’m just out of the loop.

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    This is the right answer. Of course marginalized groups tend to colonize new communities, because the big platforms, both because of their top-down structuring Nd because of the people who are on them, aren’t always welcoming.

    This is different from Voat tho. Voat was explicitly made to be a “free speech zone” i.e. a “let’s say nazi shit because nobody can censor us”-space. The fediverse’s idea is simply not to be dependent on centralised platforms, it says nothing about the content. If it happens to be left leaning, it’s because left leaning people tend to care more about stuff like right to privacy and centralisation.

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      It really seems like all “free speech” social sites are really just places for racism to flourish.

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        the most universal and common limits to free speech that people will come across on social media in the west are usually an iteration of ‘don’t be an asshole’

        censorship is usually relatively lax on other fronts, and various sites will censor different things, whereas most every site will have basic enforcement of ‘don’t be an asshole’ rules

        as a result the most crying about free speech will come from folks who got told off for being an asshole and are entirely incapable of getting over it

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          I don’t think “free speech” and “don’t be an asshole” are incompatible. I do mostly agree with your take, there different flavors of asshole that are more tolerated than others though.