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.
Every time this site has tried to do a lifeboat comm, it pretty much immediately got sabotaged by wreckers and a struggle session mysteriously consumes the entire site. Easy wedge is claiming a comm's mods are the same as the sitemods and concern trolling when the comm has extra rules.
I 've had fun sitting on the sidelines of those trash fires like :popcorn-time:, but you can see the toll it took on the sitemods and devs. Last six months or whatever have been chill enough I finally made an account to hang out. Feels like the mods learned, but who knows, maybe I just haven't gotten banned yet.
r/antiwork would be better off making their own instance of hexbear or lemmy imo. We've all got thicker skin after a year of this shit and it's less of a target on their backs.