[skrbjc]

If you didn't want something like this to exist, maybe a good way to get it to be un-enjoyable by the people who want to use it would be to show up and yell intolerable things at the top of your lungs. You can already see many instances in this thread of people assuming that sites like this exist solely for the pleasure of racists, which makes "normal" people think it's not for them. Mission accomplished, all the normies will stick to their "mainstream" sites where content is moderated and they don't have to worry about parsing what is "right" or "wrong" because someone in Mountain View wrote an algorithm that surfaces wrong-think to a minimum wage disposable worker who decides that yes it is wrong-think, and removes it.

Think about this. Last year, if you said that covid might have come from a lab, you were saying something that was obviously wrong, your post should be removed, you should be suspended, and you might be a racist as well. Fast-forward to now, well actually it's pretty possible that it might have come from a lab, maybe we should have talked about that...

The problem to solve with anonymous message boards is getting rid of the bad-faith actors. I think we need a system that allows individuals to subscribe to independent moderators. The central company provides the infrastructure and makes a marketplace where individuals can upload their own ban lists and moderation algorithms that people can subscribe to, allowing you to curate your feed based on many options of moderation. Maybe kinda similar to ad-blockers, some of which get rid of everything and some of which allow some stuff through, that follows standards. This way the central company is insulated from having to worry about moderation, except to remove obviously illegal content, and individuals get a variety of choices and can't blame some central authority for making decisions on the content they see.