I remember being really disappointed that the mods there refused to leave reddit during the protests last June. Today I happened to check reddit and I see the engagement appears to have plummeted.
So it seems the peeps decided to vote with their feet, which is great! However I know there hasn't been a lot of influx in alternative places like this community, !anarchism@slrpnk.net or even raddle.me.
So where have all the online anarchists gone? What do you think :D
Leftists leaving an online space that’s hostile to leftists, what a surprise
I'm still here! I'm more interested in learning from your perspectives than dumping mine.
Edit: so I failed a Perception check and read this as being about this community. I am very much not on Reddit anymore.
If I had to guess, the Redditors "lost" probably diffused into several Lemmy communities, Raddle, several Mastodon instances, several Discord servers, and several places unknown to us. Some of us probably took the lack of activity in each individual forum as a lack of interest. We fragmented. I know you're in a bunch of anarchist communities, and I'm subscribed to a few, but there's probably some people we're missing.
I went on my computer and checked out Reddit last week, after seven months. Subs I loved are ghost towns now. YouTubehaiku has like nothing. It’s very sad.
I don't know exactly what happened, but I had heard that particular subreddit kept having repeated instances of infighting and the mods weren't too great at handling it. I think much of their userbase has moved along to other things. The antiwork subreddit has had a lot of clout lately I guess.
Oh, did antiwork recover from the "maybe I'll be a professor" thing?
Nah there was a period from 2010 and for a couple years that things were shaking out between various styles of anarchism and possible some ml entryists, but it's been relatively stable for the past 5 years at least.
They stopped being anarchists I guess or stopped being interested in the discourse around it. Everything is fucked and every other person is some bloodthirsty ghoul either pro Israel or pro Russia one way or another and nothing can be done really.
They stopped being anarchists I guess or stopped being interested in the discourse around it
That's very unlikely
I would say it somewhat restarted to have some activity recently, it used to be very dead after they reopened it after protests.
