Anything without the ability to delete user content becomes instantly unusable due to spam, pornbots and (if the site get big enough) CSAM.

Then CSAM point becomes kind of a religion for social networks. Either a social network is able to resist government's urge of terrorism prevention and child protection (I am referencing to some famous meme on censourship) or its moderator's ego is going to have an endless growing exposed in banning some users with some fancy excuses. Now try to convince me that Lemme is not a spam from Reddit's PoV.

How do you stop your website from being filled with CSAM? “Religion” aside, what do you actually do with your mouse and keyboard when you see CSAM pop up on a website that you pay for?

>I am searching a Reddit alternative with no ability to delete anything.

Good luck with that: between libel and illegal pornography whoever operated such a service would very quickly be inundated with legal woes. The fact is community standards exist for a reason: they don't need to be absolutely permissive, only permissive enough

Lemmy you can host your own server with your own rules, or use a server who's rules you like.

If you don't want to post porn, Gab allows all legal speech otherwise.

> We strive to ensure that the First Amendment remains the Website’s standard for content moderation. We will make best efforts to ensure that all content moderation decisions and enforcement of these terms of service does not punish users for exercising their God-given right to speak freely.

> As a general rule, written expression that is protected political, religious, symbolic, or commercial speech under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution will be allowed on the Website. User Contributions absolutely must in their entirety comply with all applicable federal, state, and local regulations in the United States.

https://gab.com/about/tos

The first post I got when I opened that link was from a user going by "Kitler" (based on the profile picture, it's a kitten version of Adolf Hitler)

Kitler's post was culture war stuff about homosexuals. Clicking on his profile, I get taken to a bunch of racist and anti-semetic posts.

Gab is for a certain kind of person.

You know how people in California claim that the homeless problem there is due to them having programs to support the homeless, and that if other states did a better job their state would have less of a problem? Well if you are basically the only website that allows all legal speech, you are going to see a lot of stuff that was censored elsewhere. I'd love to see a version of this created by a more left wing group of people to balance things out, and whouldve recommended it here if it existed, but they seem to have abandoned free speech as a concept entirely.

I'm leftist (moderate by European standards, probably radical by American standards) and I would never want to be on gab. It's a toxic cesspool. Sorry I just have no other words for it.

This is not about free speech anymore, it's really just a bunch of hate speech.

I checked it out recently and among the first 5 top posts was one claiming Hitler was a great leader. I wonder if they remember how many patriotic Americans lost their lives getting rid of that insanity.

Banning nazis and other hate speech isn't "abandoning free speech", the right has just lost their collective minds. Literally banning books from schools and pretending its the liberal mainstream (which isn't even remotely left in reality btw.) who are against free speech.

I'm reminded of a Rage Against The Machine lyric from back when public schools were mostly controlled by the religious right: "They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em"

Back then they didn't need to ban books, they just didn't order them to be placed in the library in the first place. I'd be curious to see how much of the work of authors like Thomas Sowell is available in these libraries, I suspect very little but without all the tears about it being banned.

why on earth would the right ban Thomas Sowell he his one of them

They don't control the libraries anymore. That's why they gave to pass laws to ban books instead of doing it quietly like Thomas is.

This is a great explanation as to why "free speech" websites always have the worst people. The people that believe you should be able to say whatever you want have to rub elbows with the people that believe you must say the n-word in every comment.

Left wing free speech groups exist on Matrix and Telegram.

Everything in the feed is coming from a right wing perspective. May I re-state that Gab promoted a hitler themed novelty account named Kitler?

On a free speech absolutist website I'd expect to see some of my fellow leftoids calling for the slaughter of landlords, but I didn't see that anywhere; only rightoids calling for the slaughter of jews and homosexuals.

I’m not getting into an argument with you, I’m just letting you know that gab is a nazi website.

There are free speech zones that don’t promote posts about killing Jewish people.

By continuing to promote Gab, you will find yourself drawn to spaces that won’t challenge your promotion of a literal social media site for nazis.

Calls to violence are not legal speech and if you see some you can report it and it should be removed. Andrew Torba (the owner) frequently makes this stance clear.

You’re a very silly goose :3

Since Elon is turning Twitter into Gab does Gab have any reason to exist?

Twitter doesn't take such a hard stance. For example when European countries ask Gab to censor content that is illegal there Gab declines.