feels to me like there should be kind of outreach and way to connect these communities, i know here is more 'left unity' and shitposty than gzd but still the overlap between the 2 seems too large for it to be worth having 2 separate tiny communities instead of combining them into one bigger one.
i see a ton of stuff that's literally just reposted on both anyway, and neither here or lemmygrad is anywhere close to the size that r/gzd or /r/cth was on reddit. feels like they should be interconnected somehow or one should absorb the other. the online non-corporate social media 'leftist' community is far too small to be split up this much.
i personally vote for hexbear because i like the bear.
I mean this place is run by volunteers, it has a culture of left unity. That is core to this place and to make an exception for sectarianism for a specific group undermines that goal.
Ok sounds like you won’t tolerate them here then so stop trying to wring your hands and act like you want them here
It's not like we don't allow dunking on individuals with bad takes.
I literally don't care if they come here or not.
What is it you people even want?
Because half the time you are saying you need to reach out to other leftist communities and onboard them, and the other half you are bitching about how sectarian those communities are and how their cultures are incompatible and they need to change to fit your standards.
You don’t want to grow, you obviously want to forever remain a small clique or else you would be more open to autonomy and accommodations and compromise for different federated subgroups.
It’s fine if you want to forever remain a small clique on here and never grow or onboard anyone, but just admit that to yourselves instead of acting like a big tent when in fact you are one of the most ban happy and culturally-enforced groups on the internet
Look man I just work here
I have tried to plug this site a couple times to GZD and lemmygrad and every single time there are like ten responses complaining about the mods here. Don’t shoot the messenger. You have created a reputation through your heavy handed actions.
I'm not "shooting" anyone, we're not "suppressing the culture" of a shitposting subreddit full of teenagers. It's a fine place and did fine work but if people want to come here this place isn't going to adapt to their specific needs especially if that need is to stir shit.
There have been plenty of good faith discussions about tendencies and tactics here, we can respect comrades with different views as long as it doesn't veer into shit slinging or reactionary bs.
Having a comm that not only allows but protects sectarianism is counter to what we want to do here.
Eventually we will probably be federated and none of this will matter anyway.
Alright well they will not join this site if this is the attitude. I’m just making pragmatic descriptive statements but you seem to take offense at it and lash out about.
I'm not taking offense lol I'm pretty ambivalent. I don't speak for this whole site and you don't speak for every GZD poster, maybe there is a majority view that's the case but I have yet to even see what specific examples they have issues with, you've said they have issues with the mods being heavy handed but provide no context for what that means.