It’s literally “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” as part of the site’s design. We have enough negativity just living in and talking about modern capitalism. Given that so much social media relies on addictive usage patterns and heightened “locked in” emotional states, it’s nice that this site has managed to get by so much on positive reinforcement.
Obviously, many of us are compulsive users and there’s still an element of “experience your trauma in the same place you get your comfort” going on here, but that seems less common nowadays. A lot of the users who were blatantly using the site for self-harm and doomscrolling all day have moved onto greener pastures (such as hanging out in Discord servers where they talk shit about how awful the site is).
I think the core site culture is still very wholesome and social. Lack of downvotes helps keep things less combative and lets the users who enjoy that side of things just chill. For anyone who doesn’t give a shit and would rather have an anonymous shitposting forum, I will point out that:
These users invested in social aspects of the site tend to be the ones self-organizing and doing cool stuff like movie nights, anime nights, the zine, and making high-quality OC memes
What you want already (kind of) exists over at https://dismantle.capital/
So yes, I’ve enjoyed the removal of downvotes. But I enjoyed TERFmas much more :leslie-shining:
PS we need a :feinberg-shining: once someone gets back to maintaining emotes on the reg
It’s a chan with heavier moderation run by some of the people from the old Discord. It’s still technically in development but leftypol found it months ago. They’re trying to do the chan thing in a way that isn’t just “say slurs and make fun of minorities”. Not my cup of tea either way but it exists
It’s literally “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” as part of the site’s design. We have enough negativity just living in and talking about modern capitalism. Given that so much social media relies on addictive usage patterns and heightened “locked in” emotional states, it’s nice that this site has managed to get by so much on positive reinforcement.
Obviously, many of us are compulsive users and there’s still an element of “experience your trauma in the same place you get your comfort” going on here, but that seems less common nowadays. A lot of the users who were blatantly using the site for self-harm and doomscrolling all day have moved onto greener pastures (such as hanging out in Discord servers where they talk shit about how awful the site is).
I think the core site culture is still very wholesome and social. Lack of downvotes helps keep things less combative and lets the users who enjoy that side of things just chill. For anyone who doesn’t give a shit and would rather have an anonymous shitposting forum, I will point out that:
So yes, I’ve enjoyed the removal of downvotes. But I enjoyed TERFmas much more :leslie-shining:
PS we need a :feinberg-shining: once someone gets back to maintaining emotes on the reg:leslie-shining:
Corrected. Thank you for exposing my liberalism
ew wtf is this 4chan shit
It’s a chan with heavier moderation run by some of the people from the old Discord. It’s still technically in development but leftypol found it months ago. They’re trying to do the chan thing in a way that isn’t just “say slurs and make fun of minorities”. Not my cup of tea either way but it exists