Found this site, figured at least this part of it aligned with the intent of deshittification.
Today, a few companies decide what you see, store what you do, and choose what you’re allowed to say. The tools recommended here are the way out: browsers, messaging apps, publishing platforms, and services that push back.
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PoopingCough@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 22d
Yeah i don't think this site is on our side with these recommendations
There's a lot of other reccs for places touring "free speech" and "no censorship" which I am now assuming is mostly a dogwhistle for "hate speech welcome"
foxymochakitten@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 20d
Eurgh :/
andioop@programming.dev · 1 pts · 16d
Thanks for letting me know ;-; I'd just seen a few things, and I guess it makes sense people who want to do hate speech also have an interest in keeping communications private.
Going on a tangent, this really makes me think about the "nothing should be censored, I'll dislike what you say but defend your right to say it, let bad ideas be dragged out into the light and burnt in the magnifying glass of the sun instead of letting them hide in the dark to infect another mind" folks. I haven't seen many of them around in awhile.
Used to think this was the whole ethos behind not book-burning and why (at least in the bubble I lived in before 2016) we keep Mein Kampf around as a society that condemns Nazism, to learn from awful people what not to do and what their rhetoric looks like to not get fooled again. It sounded like a good and noble ideal to hold up!
I wonder if these people are less vocal about their ideas now because they kind of see that talking about the importance of free speech will just get them mistaken for the people who talk about noble ideas of free speech to try to deflect from their desire to have hate speech normalized without consequences. Or if I just don't see them because of the environment I'm in, or they've changed their minds because they've seen bad ideas dragged out into the light of day only for those bad ideas to be actually followed instead of rejected. I'd like to have a talk with a normal free speech person who both doesn't want the government to imprison you for saying slurs, but also thinks slurs are disgusting and doesn't want to say them.