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The chapo subreddit had only one subreddit. This place has way fewer users than the subreddit. I find the emphasis on segmenting content weird.
But also yes electoralism is annoying.
People can just scroll thru it. There's not that much content here anyway, it's not like there's a lot to get thru. These people are just loud whiners.
Wish there was a way to make it exclusionary rather than inclusionary. So you don't post to main, but everyone sees every post unless they opt out of a topic.
In this case (for me) its less because "hey there's a place for this! Put it where it belongs!" and more "please god stop reminding me of electoralism, please oh please just end my suffering"
Well now I have a place to unburden myself of my stories about life as an entryist in DC to a group of people I think will appreciate it without clogging up the front page with my long-winded shit. I never felt comfortable doing that on Reddit because I felt like it would be taken in the wrong way, so count me among the people who support the creation of the forum. I now know I have a place to say certain things without anyone taking it as recommendations for what to do. My stories fit nowhere else besides a place called "electoralism" and the reader can judge them on those terms.
The Capitol Police let me use their firing range. I told one of the guys who checked me at the door that I had nowhere to shoot, and he was like, we have a firing range, want to use it? I used to have the targets from that practice session but I lost them when I moved back home. The thing I remember most about it was that it was the first time I'd used a laser sight on a pistol, and it actually made my aim worse.
If you can remember me saying that, then do you also remember my New Year's story?
this is actually what reddit had to do in the early years. /r/reddit.com was the landing page and main sub, and it made it hard for new subs and content in niche communities to see any traffic. I think they turned it into an announcement space for a while before eventually just archiving it.
Didn't reddit not even have subreddits until it got decently big?
yea, I remember when they added subs. it was pretty needed but even then it took a while for content/communities to diversify from like /r/programming and other things that interest nerdy, techy white dudes.
edit: my point isn't clear - not having subs/comms allows a monoculture to form. the hope is that people come join this site for something other than /c/main, creating semi-autonomous communities.
Having a dumping ground is good for misc content, but the default view really should be All.
I think it’s in the pipeline.
politics is only the election, I insisted, closing my blinds so I could not see the city burning.
People keep saying Joe Biden quotes are electoralism as if he's not going to be president for four years.
@Beatnik with that, you're right
Making sub communities on a site with 500 total active users is about the worst move I can think of
why does every chapo offshoot end up with 200X as many subs as their population would demand? on the discord too. Let's have /c/fashion and a /c/under shortguys and a /c/people with two syllable names
I'd say, in this case, because it's better to have room to grow into than have to build it up at the moment it's needed. Speaking from experience of building the discord basically while thousands joined it was very messy and plenty of avoidable mistakes were made. It certainly allowed it to grow and form rather organically, but who knows
This site has 500 fucking users, stop trying to divide even those up, it's dumb as fuck
I think there's a distinction with a difference between separating things for the sake of it and separating things because a lot of people would like things more to be that way. If you disagree that's fine, but doing so like you have isn't exactly productive
That's bullshit, my name has three syllables and I demand a /c/people with three syllable names
Nah but it really gets pathetic, I mean, I want to learn cool leftist things instead of the never ending torture of the US elections.
I post most of my cool leftist things to other subs, like news, politics, philosophy, and history. If you’re using Home as default you’re missing out.
Well, maybe the default homepage should be to show everything, you know like the old sub.
It’s probably because non-main communities are stagnating a bit, due to most users not using All, and only being subbed to Main by default.
Once that’s fixed, we should see other communities get more use, and forcing specific content over there becomes viable.
You don't get to ignore material reality just because it sucks ass.
Dude shut up
Main is for everything, stop whining. What the fuck would you even want it to be if you relegate all the popular topics into some obscure corner.
Actually Lenin said that posting electoralism in main is praxis.
Either make c/main c/all or let anything be posted on r/main
The paralysis that comes with the astonishment towards Dem/Lib/neolib fuckery is what made this subculture of Chapo in the first place. In that regard, it's main.
you should suggest that in feedback, that'd be dope if its something that's possible for them to implement!
