EDIT - A lot of people have made some very good points below. We don't need to get rid of the comms we have (or not create new ones as the need arises). Rather the suggested comms below can be something in addition to the ones we already have (and the ones we'll create), meant for a more broader/general view, posts etc.
1a.) A c/imperialcore would be preferable to having a separate c/canada and c/oceania and c/europe etc. A lot of the laws/politics etc. in these countries are very similar especially w.r.t. how they interact with the global south.
1b.) A dedicated c/internationale community to talk about the global south (rather than separate c/sino, c/latam etc). This can be a place to talk about other global south nations that don't have separated communities without those posts getting lost in the bigger communities.
2.) A c/religion rather than having separate c/christianity, c/judaism, c/islam, c/paganism etc. This allows a place for posts about buddhism, hinduism, jainism etc. These communities, like the ones mentioned in 1a and 1b, have posts that would be of interest to a lot more people than just their userbase.
3.) A unified c/theory rather than separate c/anarchism and c/marxism. This can then also incorporate other tendencies like ultraleft, communalism, etc. I'm someone who isn't on "either" side of the theory line. I frequent both marxists.org and anarchistlibrary.org to read the new additions and go through the backlog. On YouTube I watch both anarchists and MLs. A combined c/theory will invite more users to join, read, post, and interact with one another. Now that we have a dedicated c/strugglesession, any discussion in c/theory that starts drifting towards that direction can easily be directed there.
Right now, these communities get barely any traction because we don't have the userbase to support them. Maybe when we do, we can separate them again if enough users demand it. But there is a lot more to be gained if we combine these communities. At least in my view.
I don't like the imperial-core-centric view of c/international. Let c/sino be its thing along with c/latam and future region-oriented comms.
I don't think it's a good idea to have separate regional comms at this stage. we just don't have the userbase to have a separate c/southasia, c/southeastasia, c/middleeast, c/centralasia etc. Look at c/rojava, c/kurdistan. Not to mention, the key idea is that there is a lot of overlap between the issues faced by developing countries in asia, africa, latin america etc. Having a dedicated comm to talk about the global south, a c/internationale, will show that. We can definitely have tags in that comm that are region/country specific.
Yeah, c/globalsouth makes sense, but not if it means nuking c/sino, c/latam and etc. Sometimes people like to circlejerk about some internal meme. If you tweak the site to be person-from-the-empire oriented, you won't attract randos who preffer to talk about local issues.
I just preferred the name c/internationale to c/globalsouth.
I think we can talk about local issues, like protests in India, or the elections in Peru, in a broader community too. That's the point. So that people who aren't from that region can also see and interact with those posts. Right now posts that want that sort of traction go to c/politics or something and then never show up on c/latam etc. Part of the reason I like having different communities is because we can go through those posts long after they've left the current news cycle, kinda like archives. But because so many things just get posted to the big comms this just isn't possible. And they don't get enough attention when they're posted either if they're on the specific comms.
Crossposting should work better, like in reddit you had "see discussion in other communities" or some way to integrate it, idk.
c/rojava and c/kurdistan are two comms for a single small ethnic group and, in the context of this site, they only exist to push a single political position that most people seem to have moved past. I think we have more Assadists than Rojava stans.
A c/MiddleEast, especially one geared more towards discussion of the region, would be much more active. There's actually stuff happening there, unlike the other regions.
The problem with main was that a lot of things got lost in that stream. There has to be a balance between that and just comms siloed away and becoming deserts.
"Just read every single post, you libs"
I'm only half joking I'm here a lot :side-eye-1: Most Comms can stay but main still has purpose. Theres still misc stuff that's mostly going into cth and politics afaik
c/politics is the new c/main, and if it's too shitty post then it goes on c/cth
I don't know. Maybe. But I still think they're a good idea. I went into it w.r.t. c/theory but that logic also applies to c/internationale or c/imperialcore or c/religion.
Yay! This maintainance seems long overdue.
Are any new coms going to be added? It seems like very few requests are ever met.
I don't like 1, mostly because I'm desperate for an actual Canadian leftist space and there's a chance that /c/canada will grow quite a bit with the upcoming federal election this summer/fall.
I don't like 4 either because frankly this site is a heavily ML/MLM/Dengist space and /c/anarchism is gonna get squashed. I want a chance to build that community too, and maybe do some long-form posts there, so those of us who lean that way can discuss theory or really anything other than the slew of, "all my irl anarchist comrades are really cool but look at this tweet, stupid fake anarchists online" posts.
I really don't think we have the userbase to have any country/region specific comm that isn't the US. I wouldn't mind a space where we can have talks about Canada's elections, in addition to elections in other anglo countries, etc. Like, the idea that we have a c/canada for a once in five year election seems pretty weird. At least with other imperial countries, we can all talk about how Jacinda's just the new Trudeau or how French islamophobia influences Quebecois islamophobia. There was a great video in c/oceania about how libs in Australia put "We are on the unceded territory of ___ people" and how some actual indigenous people took them up on the offer. My first thought upon watching that was that we need to do that in Canada. So, there's a lot of overlap between the various imperial nations and this way they'll be visible for everyone.
c/theory is really just meant to be about theory, not dunking posts or contemporary china or whatever. I feel it would be a good way to introduce people to theory they might not otherwise read.
we can all talk about how Jacinda’s just the new Trudeau or how French islamophobia influences Quebecois islamophobia
I understand the desire for international collaboration, but... this sounds like an incredibly American take. There's lots going on here that folks over there won't want to read or discuss, and vice versa. There is a lot that goes on in my country that's particular to its history, especially the relationship between Indigenous groups and the colonial state, and to paint that with the same brush as the parallel relationship in other regions fits perfectly into our deeply problematic mindset of not respecting the diverse nationhood of these peoples.
I realize the comm is pretty quiet and probably not going to grow right now, but if you do a commonwealth or "Western" merger, very few people will have any interest in the resulting space.
Yeah, that's a point I hadn't really considered. I still think we need a c/internationale or a c/imperialcore or something but maybe getting rid of country/region-specific comms isn't needed for that. And keeping individual comms but just adding these as something more broader will be good enough. Thanks.
I feel like if a Canadian comrade is saying they feel a Canadian comm is needed...
Yeah, they (and others) have changed my mind. I still think we need some broader comms (like c/theory, c/religion) but they can be in addition to having specific comms.
yeah this is pretty good idea, maybe also make it so new users are auto subbed to these comms. Or maybe boost the posts in these comms somehow idk
