A lot of people have asked what becomes of The Donald in a post-Trump Presidency world. Thankfully, the tyrants have made that answer clear.
We're all that's left.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Shopify, Parler, etc etc etc. All have either pulled the trigger on banning the truth, or had the trigger pulled on them. Nevertheless, We Persisted.
Thanks to being forged by the fires of Nimbly Navigating a hostile internet, we're still here, and still able to spread the truth. That's our purpose. It always has been, but now more than ever, it seems we're among the last bastions.
It's time to look out for free speech as a whole, though. Even beyond politics, words, thoughts, truth is censored. We can fight back by branching out and building a larger Community on the internet. A community that promotes free speech, with a place for everyone, even those we might disagree with.
Communities.win
It's time we expand, grow the number of Communities, the topics covered, and eventually allow user-created communities. Win is launching a list of apolitical communities today:
Sometimes you need an escape from politics, and as it stands the only real places to go for that escape simply don't provide it. Want to look at animals? Here's Don Jr hunting. Something funny? Orange Man Bad. Sports? NOOSE! And we all know what happens when you try to scroll through your Facebook or Twitter feed.
These communities will have strict no-politics rules, Left or Right. Just a place to go to take a break, have a laugh, or learn something about your interests. How the internet used to be, ya know?
Currently, posts from all of the above communities can also be found on the communities.win homepage. In the future we will allow customization of your homepage, to include or remove any communities you wish. At the moment the default will be only apolitical communities.
Beyond that, as we continue nimbly navigating through dark waters, the up to date backup url's are (Keep them bookmarked):
https://thedonaldbackup.com
https://communities.win/c /thedonald (active) (Minor formatting issue, will be resolved. Just take out the space.)
https://thedonald.space
We look forward to becoming a major player in internet freedom. Growing, improving, and red pilling people who see that there's an entirely other viewpoint that they've been totally censored from seeing.
Thank you all for everything. It's been an amazing SIX years, and I hope you all join me in looking forward to the next six, and beyond!
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
MAKE THE INTERNET GREAT AGAIN
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I worry that this is just eventually going to become another Reddit with tyrant mods that remove anything that hurts their fees fees. Thankfully I haven’t seen much of that on theDonald but as we expand you’re definitely going to start seeing that. I would love to join the team and help come up with a plan to stop this just from becoming another Reddit but if that is not needed or wanted I hope you guys have a plan for that
We'll just fuckin do it again!
But why not plan now?
Every one of these sites starts off well, and then someone gets in the right position, and turns the project into a political nightmare. It always starts small. Do you think Twitter was always anti thought? Was Facebook and Reddit always anti thought? The Donald subreddit flourished in its early days.
That’s why the strict no-politics rule at these communities is a great idea IMHO.
This is a concern with any growth. Think of it like startups, the founder comes in with a specific vision and it takes off. But growth always brings more people into leadership positions. Those people MUST be vetted to ensure they have the same founding principles in mind.
What makes this easier is to have something written in stone that says "these are the rules we live by." The less that is up for debate, the better.
Here's to a new day of internet freedom.
I think the difference here is a strict "no-politics" rule (assuming it's enforced).
Reddit has no such rule, and thus the subs just devolve to suit the political views of the mods. If politics are forbidden in these extra communities then it will be much harder for that situation to repeat here.
I play an old MMO on a private server and the admins there are also very strictly "no-politics". Surprisingly I did not see anything political there throughout the entire election. It can be done.
The problem with a no-politics rule is that everything can be construed to be political or non-political, according to the whims of the moderator.
Sooner or later down the line this results in a moderator who allows the sub to devolve into /r/politics (a.k.a. removing all political content that doesn't agree with their particular political bubble).
Like the constitution?
I agree. Leftists see everything as inherently political and are very clever at injecting their ideology into everything over time.
The appearance of being "apolitical" must be maintained by at least some vigilant, moderate, right-wing pushback.
Yes we need to be a free-speech platform but we need to promote and push conservative values. I don’t necessarily have a good answer on how to do that quite yet.
You ban leftism. YOU BAN IT.
You fucking ban it, or you drown in it.
Leftism will destroy itself when you expose their ideas to sunlight they are easily debated
Yes I agree just hard to get black and white rules on what leftism is on a site like this
This is the way.
Great thing they could do on general interest forums is make downvotes only half of an upvote. Then 49% opinions won't be suppressed to the bottom, but true trash ideas will still be buried.
It doesn't work in elections where 51% (of legal votes) winner should take all, but it does work for building consensus and exposing people to other ideas outside their echo chamber.
I've evolved from a "live and let live" purist to saying that civilized people need to ostracize collectivists. What they are doing to us right now. IMHO the "no politics" rule should be "no politics on general interest forums, and collectivists also get banned."
Agree!