This post may be seen as factionalism and not productive, but I figure I mine as well pose the question:

Are you planning on keeping a presence on at least a few of the subreddits and continue posting there while also building up Chapochat?

I had originally planned on just "cutting over" and leaving it for dead, but then I realized that there is a lot of potential for slow/steady growth if we had a decent userbase which was still active on various lefty subreddits. We could occassionally crosspost text posts from here and have discussion on those subs about whatever we're talking about here.

That should naturally lead to more users on ChapoChat.

Another thing is that I don't want spez and those fashlibs to feel any more satisfaciton in killing the largest leftist subreddit than they need to - as a full on exodus of the dirtbag left allows their neoliberal ilk to run amok on the platform moreso than in the past.

Having said all that, I think r/DemocraticSocialism has had a decent uptick in activity since 'the ban' so I think naturally that is where a lot of the CTH refugees may have moved over to. They seem like one of the less weird lefty subs, in that they like to post memes and the mods don't seem like memes themselves, in that they are not overbearing from what I have seen.

Any other subs that you think are worth posting in these days? Personally my past experience with a lot of them has been negative, but maybe things have changed?

  • Fakename_Bill [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The old Chapo sub used to grow by people seeing our posts and comments on other subs, checking out our profiles, and finding chapo in our comment history. What I did on Reddit was make a post to my own profile with a link to this site, and pinned it. That's less likely to get us new users than it was on Reddit, but it's better than nothing.

    • SnugMelon [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      High key it's also because we would regularly get into bitchfights with other subreddits, and that gave us clout

      • acealeam [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        its very hard to be the bogeyman of reddit on chapo. chat

        • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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          4 years ago

          i heard neolib and stupidpol were screenshotting us already , so that might not be true

        • SnugMelon [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          We could do it though

          9gag became the bogeyman of reddit for a minute there without doing anything

      • Fakename_Bill [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        On new Reddit (browser), go to your own profile and click "new post" in the right sidebar. It'll automatically be set to post to your own profile.

        On mobile, click the new post button, and for the "community" option, select your own profile.

        Idk about old reddit.

        You'll have mod controls over posts on your own profile, so you can pin from there