Have noticed a definite increase in posts in c/commrequest for subreddit specific comms. Also noticed posts about :libs: flocking to lemmy.
Can we please not? No site specific comms. No posts in the subreddits offering lifeboats.
We’re either going to be outnumbered by libs or awful ideological niche folks that are just going to completely ruin the entire vibe and function of the site.
It happened before (vcj). Don’t let it happen again.
I see no problem with the site being a lifeboat to some subs like TheDeprogram
deprogram gang would fit in with our general culture just fine, sometimes feels like r/deprogram is our new subreddit.
sometimes feels like r/deprogram is our new subreddit.
Sshhh nobody tell her
Yeah, it's more that there should be some discussion of each community beforehand so if something doesn't gel with what we already have we don't go for it.
Dear everyone coming here
You will be banned And yes if you want you can make another account.
Thanks
I expect a fair number of old struggle sessions that have been decided to come erupting up from the ground again, shit like "why isn't thirstposting absolutely everywhere? As the leftest leftist, sex positivity demands that everyone hear constantly about what makes someone horny!" :volcel-judge:
Just mentioning it in this post has already kicked it off. Incredible
Nah we should grow, absorb them culturally, and grow some more. All that matters is that mods are on-point.
Don't give this place another chance to harass and abuse ppl looking for a lifeboat
Vegans didn't ruin the vibe, you fucking losers. It was your disgusting reaction to being asked not to exploit and murder others that ruined the vibe, just like when you all lost your shit about adding pronouns
Constantly rewriting the history of this website's historic abuse and harassment of multiple lifeboat communities really ruins the vibe for me
abuse and harassment
These words mean something, you are on a niche internet site.
They do mean something. Sorry you can't take this seriously enough to consider the communities y'all treated so relentlessly terribly that they had to leave if they weren't straight up banned
Here we go, getting called an asshole bc I won't accept history being rewritten about how a community I modded got harassed and abused off this site. That's called victim blaming btw. Sorry my tone wasn't good enough for y'all not to be bigoted
Here's the history:
- Vegans have a comm on here that exists just fine
- VCJ is invited
- Massive drama ensues that keeps popping up every now and then
That's not the fucking history, revisionist loser. That's just what you tell yourselves so you never improve. VCJ was just the last community to get run off, not the first.
And vegans didn't cause the drama. You only tolerate us when we're silent and have no power because you hate nonhumans and you hate when you're asked to stop hurting others.
I take abuse and harassment seriously enough to not call every internet slapfight abusive.
A major part of this site's vibe is not conflating the internet with the real world, and at least recognizing that being terminally online is bad.
Listen, you weren't the fucking target. You don't know what the community went through. You weren't privy to any of it. You're speaking out of total ignorance
Don't worry, most of the ppl y'all ran off stayed away. Turns out relentless harassment works
Didn’t people fight each other for a few months because someone started a book club and the absolute holy right to be lazy and never read theory was being misconstrued as ignoring the book’s trans rights subject matter?
Indigenous vegans were banned too, because it wasn't about indigeneity
Sounds about white. That event was part of me going vegan, so hopefully any remnants can take a bit of solace in that.
It did not happen with VCJ, oh my god. Literally, maybe, 8 people came over.
my theory of change is shaming people online into making better individual consumer purchasing decisions
my theory of change is shaming people online into making better individual consumer purchasing decisions
:geordi-no:
Theory of change stating that because no ethical consumption under capitalism, gas powered leaf blowers, rolling coal, and planet-burning cryptocurrency are all just as good and bad as everything else so do whatever lol
:geordi-yes:
Some things that don't make much of an individual difference are still preferable from a "it isn't that hard to do less harm" perspective. :edgeworth-shrug:
Comms here function the opposite way to the way they do on reddit because of the number of users anyway, at the very least we should wait until things stabilize after the possible federation
This sites biggest mistake was getting rid of main.
Yes we know. Admin mods want other comms to get seen. But you need a large user base for that to happen and for them to be viable.
It's cart before horse thinking. Imo.
Yeah this site isn't really used as a platform it is mostly a single community.
There are way too many that are just completely dead. If there hasn't been a post in over 6 months it should be locked
So people have been talking about federation for a while is there any estimate when that is going to happen ?
Probably several months away. All I know is they aren't turning it on initially. Once the new site is up it'll be for the admins to decide with who to federate and when (I assume several months till Hexbear federates with another instance but I'm not privy to those conversations if they've been had)
This produces a walled garden of communists that literally do nothing but circlejerk among themselves. We need to be connected to and taking part in everything in order to have an effect upon it.
I don't know how anyone can believe that after watching the fascists grow from being absolutely fucking nothing into what they are today via the internet.
Like holy fucking shit half the people here would not be where they are currently ideologically if not for the work of others in the online space.
Nobody is saying not to organise offline as well ffs.
Like, what exactly do you expect to happen to the users across all the federated lemmys if all leftists disengage from it while all fascists engage with it? The space must be ideologically contested.
Lenin was essentially a newspaper editor in chief, and Internet forums have replaced newspapers for most people these days
Unfortunately, that means the next Lenin is going to be a mod
The fascist have grown because they are not purist.
The lefts biggest issue and largest hurdle is its demand for perfection from new commers. And if it's not perfection it's the belittling/hostility of people who ask or say things they don't realize are problematic.
Fascist take all. And they mold them. Unfortunately fascist are much more open to new commers and border line people. They have latched onto a message that works for many desperate people. That message being
It's their fault!
When a lot of times the left comes off as
It's your fault!
Communist cool kids club is lame as hell not what I come here for.
Thank you! Exactly what I am worried some people are advocating for.
There's nothing wrong with reaching out, and for some subs it might make sense. For the majority though, there is probably a comm here already that can serve as a replacement.
To anyone coming here from reddit, one thing that's important to realize is that we're much more of a whole-site focused community than a sub/comm one. So if there's shit you want to post, you can just find somewhere it belongs and most people will see it.
we should reach out to the users of r/politicalcompassmemes or else Patriots.win will get to them first
we should put some treats for them in the back of a dog crate and lock them in and take them to the vet to have them neutered
