You accepted their bad framing and failed before you even started thinking about the issue. Do these "redditors" realize reddit is just a website on the internet which they also can't moderate? Do they live in cities where citizens have private homes in which they can discuss anything without being moderated? These people are just repeating authoritarian talking points. The reason is that people in power need to control the frame in order to continue their campaign of squashing freedom. You are playing into their hands by even considering this framing as anything but what it is: mistaken or poorly thought out at best and abject propaganda at worst.

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It's not an authoritarian talking point, the fact is that we can pick a platform in part based on how that platform deals with abhorrent content. Historically when platforms go with the "zero censorship" approach, abhorrent content starts showing up and since it never gets removed people just remove themselves from the platform, skewing the ratio towards abhorrent content. Before too long it's just mostly just the people who post abhorrent content. And bear in mind, most normal people don't get censored or banned on traditional social media platforms, we can discuss pretty much everything we want to in the terms we want to without getting banned. So even the concept of a censorship resistant platform is primarily marketed towards people who are abhorrent and lack self-restraint.
☝this is your brain on propaganda. I will not engage. If you follow this poor soul and are gwnuinely curious: consider my second example in what he's replying to: are private homes where you can talk about anything without moderation a "platform"? Nostr is like that, if you don't like what someone is saying, you can leave their relays and go find your own, but you can't stop them from saying it.
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nix 2 years ago
If I see stuff I don't want to see I mute the note or block the person depending on how bad it is. I don't leave the platform. On the contrary, it speaks wellforr the platform's privacy any censorship resistance so in a way the presence of bad content which I can block makes me like the platform more.
That's a lie. Swear at a genocide supporter, try to abandon the false etiquette and good manners of political correctness on X and any other centralized platform, and you'll see if you can talk about anything. This is a bullshit. I don't want anyone moderating my language, my thoughts or who I can or can't see. Only I want to have the power to moderate the content I see. Anyone who doesn't want to have this job shouldn't be in Nostr anyway because they're cattle.