[dredmorbius]

Usenet, mailing lists, numerous BBSes, and any number of earlier Web forums look on your assertion with bemusement.

Reddit claimed free speech as a value in its early years. That sentiment has evolved, for all the usual reasons.[1]

It is possible to host a wide range of significant views without becoming overtly hostile to the majority of the population, and the viewpoints held by those.

Reddit was in no way "the original free speech platform".

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Notes:

1. TL;DR: it's untenable and spirals into a cesspit, QED.

[fallingknife]

I should say the last universal free speech platform. It's a cesspit anyway. Not sure how you can blame that one on freedom of speech.

[dredmorbius]

I'd disagree with the first sentence as well.

My main complaint with Reddit is that the direction it's been taking the site over the past five years or so, and more pointedly the improvements it's not made, are far divorced from where I'd like to see it go.

Reddit wastes my time and does not reward time spent on site with valuable insights. Not strictly for cultivating misinformation and disinformation, though that's a fair-sized piece of my concern. I'm more concerned that it simply kills good conversation or prevents it from arising in the first place.