Are people really rejecting a whole project because one of 6 options is Gab?
Do you people not use yt-dlp (or youtube-dl) because some of the sources they support can have more "extreme" content as well?
I'd understand it if the project was built by the same people who work at Gab, or meant for Gab, or something like that, so there really is an associated. But there is not, so why blame the project for it?
For all we know, the author could be reading Gab because sometimes you're curious to see what all the extremists are up to.
> Are people really rejecting a whole project because one of 6 options is Gab?
Seems like you are drawing conclusions that I, at least, never said.
> Do you people not use yt-dlp (or youtube-dl) because some of the sources they support can have more "extreme" content as well?
I don't think this is at all a fair comparison, as a simple glance at the front page can see. I also specifically tied my comment to there being only 6 options.
> For all we know, the author could be reading Gab because sometimes you're curious to see what all the extremists are up to.
Why would you want a recommendation feed for it then? Wouldn't you want to see it without the algorithmic distortion towards what you would prefer to see?
I'm going to go out on a good faith limb here, and postulate that OP may have added Gab, Odyssee, et al because they're not yet completely walled gardens, and it's easy to integrate with their APIs for discovery without hitting API limitations.
If I was building something like this, I'd start with something I use a lot (like Youtube), even if it required screen scraping, and then I'd move on to everything that had a dead simple API without low limits.
BUTTTT looking at the code, it would appear that they're screen scraping everything. But maybe it just so happened that the shape of Twitter's DOM is really really close to Gab's and it was super easy to add.
Or maybe this is a totally trojan horse approach to getting HN users on Gab. Who knows? But at least there's an easy way to turn it off. Not going to stop me from trying the extension, at least. (And as someone who tries to expose themselves to content bubbles that I consider insanely off-base, whether for education or entertainment, maybe I'll leave it on to see what kind of insanity is going on over there.)
> Why would you want a recommendation feed for it then?
Reading a site out of morbid curiosity doesn't mean you never want to follow a particular topic, and what is recommendation if not following topics without having to list them explicitly.
Agreed. This can be a helpful tool, even if one of the sources is kind of lame. Besides, since it is open source we can just erase that or add a different source.
If I'm pitching a product or open source item, I'm not linking it to Gab. I don't want the baggage associated with it to cast a shadow over what I've worked to accomplish. It's completely unrealistic to throw out some charitable and benign reason for folks to have that in their top X platforms.
Further, if you come across a project that does utilize a far-X leaning platform, it's safe to say that the maintainer is a supporter of their message.
If they are willing to publicly throw support (and jeopardize their user's opinion of them) at an extreme platform, what other explanation is there?
You can't be a little bit nazi. It's like ice cream and poop: if you add a gram of poop to ten tons of ice cream, you've just created ten tons of poop.
A society's level of tolerance can be measured by the least tolerant group it allows. If you allow nazis to remain at your private party, then you've joined the nazi party.
If gab, with its deep antisemitism, is tolerable to you, well...
I choose to not tolerate antisemitism, hence my comment.
> BitChute is an alt-tech video hosting service launched by Ray Vahey in January 2017. It describes itself as offering freedom of expression, while the service is known for accommodating far-right individuals and conspiracy theorists, and for hosting hate speech.
Odysee is better anyway. I tried using Bitchute because I wanted an alternative to YouTube, but the formatting is trash, and politics is the only form of entertainment there. It is also very much a free speech platform, but I find that the community is much better. At least with Odysee you can get documentaries and other forms of entertainment besides politics
Any website that believes in radical freedom of speech will have far-right, right-wing and left wing content. The question is, does it also have other content?
