I'm really excited to see what's next for this community :D
It's caused the left to take online organising more seriously and connect up in a way it wasn't before. It's interesting. What we're seeing right now is migration of outdoor tactics into the online space and outreach, org building and solidarity that I haven't seen online before. Previously each left community was just some sort of isolated community that didn't connect into all the others that much, but now there seems to be a lot of actual organising going on.
That was my dream back on the sub and on those first nights of the discord. I'm just so excited to see it start to come true before my eyes!!
Mmmm. I think it will take time to turn it into the powerhouse the subreddit once was, but as long as people remain dedicated to posting it'll get there.
A bot API is needed to really boost posting efforts. I would like to automate a bit of my posting but can't right now, lemmy is still lacking some key features reddit has but will get there slowly.
We're a long way off yet, but I think we can get there.
I have hope for the future because I must, for the future is yet to be built by us :)
I know this wasn't the intent, but I think it's huge for the project of Activitypub, which is an infrastructure for social media that is not based on Twitter or Facebook, that works across independently owned servers. I think that is huge and really cool.
I think so too. I think what's deeply important about this for Activitypub is that the migration of the left into this space, and not just the left but a MOTIVATED left aligns with the interests of the technology's future. The left's primary driving goal is growth. It always has been and always will be. We want to grow, grow, and grow some more. Having those people on your technology trying to figure out how to get growth is going to be good.
To be honest I stille have to see grand scale organizing. Chapo.chat is really cool, don't get me wrong, but for example, most of us should stop using twitter and go to mastodon to escape probable future censorship
aren't we weird nerds already ? I mean you're right but every major social media started with weird nerds.
Getting bored with it is a problem, but the bigger problem is that on larger platforms, with people who don't already agree with us, our shitposting can serve to pull people to the left. Getting some generic centrist Democrat radicalized or deprogramming some lost Republican is far more valuable than debating the minutiae of a hypothetical leftist future with other leftists. We're not going anywhere unless we get a lot more people on our side.
We needed to be banned so u/spez could say that they didn't just ban right-wing bullshit
Also probably because we kept pinging him and telling him to eat our asses, lol
Honestly the week after the ban I only had MTC and that shit moved me from slightly edgy sucdem to full on Stalin apologist.
And halted the advance of fascism to the rest of Europe. And established a stable foundation upon which the USSR could potentially have propelled the world revolution.
can you imagine how different the world would look if Stalin just didn't stop? all of Europe in the ussr, the US alone against them, I'm gonna fucking cum
Especially, when you see the garbage they post on COMPLETEANARCHY. Tankies were always right...
Honestly, after it happened, I picked up a copy of Dialectics by Stalin and actually found he made great analysis. I think I'm on the path to unironic tankie now.
Nah, knew Spez would be all: "mUh BaLaNcE" and ban it as a counterweight to banning a long dead sub.
Honestly, how were mods surprised? No wonder these geniuses sat on their asses for months on end while the sub was quarantined, only launching a site a month after the fact after all the momentum had dissipated and leaked 90% of its user base.
Cumtown was literally off the ground on day one of the ban with 10x times the user base on launch. The fact that they're 'surprised' says everything, honestly.
Yeah man it had me fucked up. Fuck spez and fuck reddit for being such spineless poindexters
In the long term, Chapo getting banner was probably a good thing. If not for that, we wouldn't have chapo.chat!
