Natural fit for this website
Mainly we would post links and screenshots of /r/Antiwork, which is mostly a great subreddit and full of pissed off workers ripe for radicalization
Edit: we're doing it in /c/Agitprop - the now dedicated Antiwork comm
I think it's a great idea. I was watching a friendly critique of a Hakim video that argued that rhetorically, anti-work free-time sentiment should be the #1 radicalizing force in our movement. The CIA controlled :reddit-logo: subreddit works explicitly against radicalization. If we can get people to visit here, that's probably one of the best uses of a website like this.
Absolutely agree.
The mod Carcosa just posted and said we aren't doing liferaft style communities here, which makes sense I guess because we could get a bunch of fucking chuds here who also just have bad jobs.
But yeah we should get good at this topic (we already kinda are) and influence the subreddit and the nascent movement.
I wouldn't see it as a life raft - I wouldn't encourage people to come here, just go over there and influence. Like the dunk tank for Twitter dot com. Not sure if that still qualifies as like a "potential inadvertent life raft" situation.
It would be primarily for influencing that subreddit, but people could post their own shitty work stories on the hexbear comm if they wanted. I feel like the volume of little comment and thread link posts would get annoying for people trying to like, build and support unions, and I bet it would just get confined into a megathread if we did it in those existing comms.
Antiwork is such an amorphous concept that we need a proper radical framing of the sentiments where it can't be suppressed by radlib mods. The subreddit originally turned me off when it was small because so many landlords participated in it, considering themselves anti-work along with cryptonerds and investors. Now it's better but there isn't a lot of real ideological discussion because the subreddit is hostile to :kitty-cri-texas: big ole dang ole tankies.
The growth of the subreddit is a unique thing to analyse and see what went right. It's like ten times the size chapo was, and the only thing stopping it from being a more radical community is its mod list. That success can be replicated if it's understood and spoken to. The liberal comments in antiwork are what we'll have to counter in any entryist community so they should be particularly highlighted. Having an antiwork community here is a good idea.
Couldn't this be a good fit for c/agitprop?
Or would agitprop be where the memes/takes get warehoused to be used?
It's worth a dedicated comm, and I don't want to overwhelm /c/agitprop or /c/labor with a ton of links to reddit posts.
I think a new comm would help drive people to make a concerted effort (and have a fun time) prodding people along and keeping that subreddit cruising in an increasingly leftward direction
I was literally just typing up a response saying that you absolutely can and should use agitprop for this lol, it's basically dead and we already decided on that a while back
Hmm... that's true.
So far, when I've seen some calls to action in other comms/comments I've done what I could. This might make it a bit easier.
I support this suggestion.
on a related note, r/antiwork2 was created by someone here, its still pretty dead but i feel like it may be worth trying to build up for spicier and more leftist antiwork shit, and more radicalisation without being drowned out by lib posts.
and we could potentially be more active about promoting this place there with less risk of being overrun by libs and chuds
I mean don't use the word on Bad Website, but you can do anything you want here.
I mean, I don't personally have a problem with it, but I would worry that libs would see it and complain and get us banned from the sub.
Sure I guess that's true- if we are successful enough some nerd would dig far enough to literally find this post and cry to the stormfront mods/admins. I'll remove it
More that accounts connected to this place would be banned and we'd lose the opportunity to direct people here. So it couldn't hurt to be more diplomatic with our language.
That's correct, the mod informed me that we aren't doing lifeboat type stuff right now. It makes sense, because we might just attract chuds and liberals who hate their bosses, to post on here.
Please make /c/antiwork. There could be a large influx since Reddit is going public on the stockmarket: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/rhhsd9/reddit_going_public_brace_yourselves_for/.
The admins decided against a lifeboat style comm, but instead were making /c/agitprop into mostly a dedicated Antiwork subreddit. You can still post other agitprop there but it's mainly for Antiwork content and specifically /r/Antiwork radicalization.
You can also post union oriented /r/Antiwork content in /c/labour
The reason we aren't doing a lifeboat is that the subreddit is too large and we would get tons of chuds here who just happen to hate their jobs
