[turtle_san]

There is a huge difference between a platform censoring/banning you and a community on the platform censoring/banning you. No irony involved. That subreddit is just trying to have discussion among like minded people without trolls and brigaders disrupting everything, they are a highly targeted subreddit for those acts. Reddit as a platform still exists for you and joining or making new communities is possible at the click of a button. Contrast that with having to create your own platform which is prohibitive, or migrating to another platform (if one even exists), which is also prohibitive.

And now we have a most recent grievance of a group getting removed from all platforms, creating their own platform, only for it to be removed from existence by mobile devices and web infrastructure dropping it.

[rootusrootus]

It's totally fine to create a closed group to talk amongst like-minded people, just don't try to make a claim that it's superior or pro-free-speech.

To the credit of the moderators of r/conservative, they don't really claim that, though some of their users try to. They're very open about their intentions. They absolutely do not welcome non-tribe members.

[kungito]

Wasn't the_donald subreddit doing a lot of brigading and censoring not just the trolls but anyone with a differing opinion?

[bena]

> That subreddit is just trying to have discussion among like minded people without trolls and brigaders disrupting everything

I love this incredibly sanitized version of what goes on in /r/conservative.