[djsumdog]

I saw this on Lobster and wanted to come here to see the comments and found this.

This is really sad. It shouldn't be flagged at all. It's about tech culture, the e-mail is very well written and it brings up valid things we should talk about as a community.

I've had my own posts flagged on Lobster as well, so they're not a bastion by any means.

I know it's their platform and the mods can do what they want, but it still bothers me we're silencing conversation. Meanwhile on platforms like Gab/Voat, you just get insane amounts of bat-shit crazy.

We're losing the moderate people in our society to extreme left/rightness of platforms.

[stillkicking]

Yep. The extremeness of e.g. The_Donald on reddit is a direct result of how hostile r/politics was to anyone who didn't support Hillary. Sadly, I think the far left actually likes it this way. They want unreasonable boogiemen they can point to and demonize, so their own echo chambers can pretend to be the moderate ones.