Maybe also got some growth from other communists on fedi seeing us and joining ig

Idk, I'm just not built for dunking ig
o7 to all of you who've gone through the effort to write big explanations of stuff for passing liberals to see though

  • Crucible [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    I had a feeling this would really mess with the community which had developed here and it did, the thing I used this site for was to be able to hear from people outside the lib/fash echo chambers everywhere else online and now the coziness of that is gone and replaced with a bro troll energy. I don't care who you dunked on or how hard you did it, spreading the word of your great victory over some internet moron just means I get stuck hearing another stupid opinion even if you epically tear it apart, and if I wanted to just read stupid opinions I can do that on reddit-logo or twitter

    • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Exactly. I'm tired of forum drama. I don't give a shit what random liberals on the internet say. Imagine if I posted every single fucking tweet from random Elon reply guys.

      Are they all dumb and easy to dunk on? Yeah. Does that mean everyone else needs to see them? Absolutely not. Please let us talk about systemic issues and global politics again instead of "oooh another lemmy user posted cringe" as if anyone cared.

    • VILenin [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      So far federation has gone more or less exactly as I thought it would: the liberals didn’t magically see the light after the same big tent tactics failed to work the last thousand times, we’ve been flooded with random lib morons spewing their tired bullshit all over like a cancerous sludge.

      Here’s what I wrote in the original federation threads:

      I come to this site specifically so I don’t have to see a raging, genocidal liberal say you’re literally Hitler if you don’t support nuking Moscow. I come here specifically so I don’t have to deal with petty internet drama. Which we already have wrt struggle sessions, do we really want to make it worse? I don’t see why we should ruin the less-shitty nature of this site just so we can yell at liberals who will just block us. (They will be so owned for the one minute before your comment is removed.) If you want to get into fights on another forum sign up for an account on another forum. Many people like the site because it’s a safe space from reddit bros and their reddit bro takes. Just because some people think it would be funny to have libs show up here to be bullied doesn’t mean we should just can the years of curation and fine tuning. It’s an extra two minutes for you to go to beehaw or whatever and get into useless fights where it’s just you and the other guy telling each other to kill themselves. Pretending that telling libs to post hog on the internet is some kind of revolutionary praxis and quoting Mao about it is just kinda sad, if not incredibly funny. Pretending that it will effect any change at all is even funnier. Applying a text written in the 1930s about interparty disciplinary policy to your dumb online fights is some real brain genius shit. It’s such a perfect encapsulation of the western left. Terminally online event horizon.