>>11626918The issue is the hypocrisy of platforming people who use pseudoanonymity to gossip about and slander real people independent of any hobby or matters of public interest. Platforming those who attack others' private lives for the sake of it while not being required to disclose their own makes the website nothing more than a tool for exercising social power over others through character assassination and consensus. Kiwifarms is, in no uncertain terms, a conceptual weapon that he currently provides to others. Make no mistake, that kind of identitarian "let the chips fall where they may" ancap mentality is as cringe and naive as communism, as all it does is facilitate conflict.
Classic 4chan culture is more a reasonably amoralistic libertarian collectivist in nature, with a greater focus on ideas and interests than individuals, identities or petty gossip. Rather than infighting, the point is to promote the evolution of ideas and humor through the collaboration of various peoples and cultures. In contrast to the destructive humanism kiwifarms embodies, 4chan culture is more focused on diversity of ideas and building constructs (ideas, fandoms, products philosophy, etc) than shaming people into social homogeneity.
It's ultimately the difference between unfettered hierarchy VS a cooperative society, and the question of which is better has already been answered by the current state of the world. War torn anarchist shitholes bad, orderly societies with collective freedoms good. Everyone wants to be on 4chan. Not everyone wants to dip their toes into the mudpit that is the farms.
The thing people need to understand is that Null was always in the wrong. He even admitted it. It was ultimately just about him selfishly wanting a platform to speak his own mind that he allowed others to partake in as well. Beyond that, there's no true principle or virtue to be found on kiwifarms. Just a bunch of petty authoritarians convinced that their rigid view of the world is correct, who enjoy shitting on anyone that doesn't conform to it. Not that people shouldn't have a platform to speak their mind. It's just that nothing truly productive comes from organizing people primarily around shitting on random civilians.
As an added note, twitter is basically the biggest scathing indictment of kiwifarms you could ever ask for. It's kiwifarms for mainstream society, and we all know how that worked out. Even if you don't care about "the history of Josh" (which I don't because I'm not in the business of moral imperialism), it's still fair to hold kiwifarms (as a toxic community building mechanism by design) against him in a way that you wouldn't if it was just a personal blog...which maybe he should've started instead.
>>11627548>he's a moralistic hypocriteBy the same token you could say that a platform facilitating pseudoanonymous gossip is ripe for facilitating cancel culture, thereby making it a threat to society. "The existence of kiwifarms is definitely a detriment to the fediverse and all other applications with free speech orientations." At the end of the day it's just an opinion, and exercising authority based on moralistic whims ultimately makes him both an enemy of" freeze peach" as well as the hypocrite he openly admits to being.
