Ask HN: Where can I talk and discuss controversial topics? With internet becoming increasingly homogeneous with their own ideals and thoughts, where can I discuss controversial topics? Certain topics I am interested in post AGI world (the one where we are living); Mass wealth transfer to the billionaires at unprecedented speed; Lack of assets for middle class; death of middle class? |
It is a fascinating sociological experiment, though frustratingly inconsistent. I have had deep and worthy conversations in the odd hours on breadths of topics.
Everything now is probably dead though a million people share your call for social-political forum.
Good luck finding it!
Either that or ironically among some kind of . . like . . minded . . . people . . .
Here's what you should do if you're serious about free speech online: Start your own website. Run it under a pseudonym. Host it on Nearly Free Speech. Ignore all SEO advice, and disallow all crawlers in robots.txt. You might not get any human readers, but you aren't likely to get censored.
Otherwise, posting on 4chan is an option if you don't mind having racial or homophobic slurs hurled at you by poorly socialized adolescents who think too highly of themselves. And there's always Substack; if they can tolerate avowed neo-Nazis like Richard Spencer and white supremacists like Richard Hanania, they can probably tolerate you.
Just remember that if you frequent a Nazi bar like Substack or X, people will assume that you're a Nazi.