They have a fairly good thing going there in terms of general energy and number of people on board but Reddit and lib mods could ruin it very fast. It also seems like we have a fair bit of exchange with them, even if a lot of us get banned. Do we want to make a liferaft comm /c/antiwork for the dual purpose of growing hexbear and providing a space where a sane and correct model of antiwork with leftist foundations can grow?
Weigh in with pros and cons below.
The solution IMO is for someone to take the initiative in setting up a Lemmy or Hexbear (or Postmill) instance and handing over control to a trusted member of that community. Or even better, walking a trusted member of that community through the process. When we first got banned, we looked to Raddle as a potential place to settle, but the difference in culture and community leadership would have made for a miserable outcome. When VCJ got banned, they looked to us as a potential place to settle and the same thing happened. What's best for them and what's best for us is independence and autonomy.
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they evidently aren't anti-sectarian since they ban anything vaguely marxist
That's not entirely accurate from what I've seen, they've just been clamping down on anyone who posts too much.
It is a lot of work. It will require an organizing initiative which can recruit at least a dozen volunteers to deal with the underlying infrastructure and maintenance, not including community moderators and the street team. But that's what it takes. That's what it took to make this place.
While we (and Lemmygrad) can certainly accommodate some refugees, we're talking about an 800,000 user forum here. We simply don't have the volunteers or resources to accommodate that kind of influx. On the other hand, within a community of that size, the expertise and the labor power is certainly present. We should take the Maoist approach of organizing them into a self-sufficient revolutionary unit, channeling that expertise and power. At least, that's my take. I'm just some guy.