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[–] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It was literally the opposite of an echo chamber. It was full of people with vastly different ideologies and included even "sub flavors" of said ideologies. Liberals/Neoliberals/Social Democrats, Conservatives/NeoCons/PaleoCons, Libertarians/Anarcho-Capitalists, Communists/Socialists, Monarchists, Fascists/Nazis/Strasserites/Neoconfederates, every flavor of Anarchist. Hell, it had an unironic Anarcho-Primitivist somehow (yes they got the "But you're on the internet, doesn't that make you a hypocrite?" a lot).

It was a dedicated invite-only debate arena on Reddit. Moderated by Libertarians, who might have fucking stupid beliefs but apparently make for very relaxed moderators.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Ah, ok - that makes more sense. What was the goal? Simply a realm for debate?

[–] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have no idea what the specific goal was but it seems like it was just a place for interesting debate. I only know I got invited because of my advocacy for UBI on Reddit back when I was a (otherwise pro-capitalism) liberal and then from spending time there I morphed into a Mutualist/Market-Socialist.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Interesting, how did everyone else's perspectives change (or at least what you can remember)? I'm really curious, the more you share about it the less skeptical and more interested I become.