I know it was originally a spin off of the chapotraphouse subreddit but I don't know much else. Is it it still affiliated with the podcast? How has it grown etc? Why was the subreddit closed etc.
Give me the lore, baby
I know it was originally a spin off of the chapotraphouse subreddit but I don't know much else. Is it it still affiliated with the podcast? How has it grown etc? Why was the subreddit closed etc.
Give me the lore, baby
When the subreddit was quarantined, a couple diaspora communities were started in anticipation of a ban. One being the discord server, the other was this lemmy instance crafted up.
There's basically no affiliation aside from the origin story of coming from a sub named for the podcast.
The sub was closed over "violent threats", basically the members would not stop saying that john brown was right to kill slave owners and that slave owners should be killed. Many think that the sub was banned mostly to keep things equal when the_donald was banned. I think it was a combination of fash reddit admins taking offense to violence against slave owners, and using the_donald banning as an opportunity to say "look we hate all extremism".
Edit: lmao how did i get it so wrong, I've been here since the first days and I've totally forgotten the details of how it went down, and I was fuckin addicted to refreshing /r/cth.
it should not be forgotten that at the time CTH was banned, there existed a several-months-old moderator tiff where most The_Donald had decamped to their thedonald dot win website and as a result r/The_Donald was inactive and an almost entirely post-free ghost town
If I remember correctly, TD was actually closed for new posts for like three or four months (this was done by the subs own mods) before the admins decided to nuke it.
The admins were also acting like "slaveowners" was a euphemism for rich people in general, in order to make their whining sound more acceptable
I mean they weren't wrong about that
Negative affiliation IIRC, one of the guys wasn't happy that the sub had almost nothing to do with the podcast and that they kept getting emails from chuds asking to be unbanned.
Actually the "ark discord," as it was called, was launched like the day before the ban (the ban was on June 29th 2020), someone who had word from a Reddit employee made a post about it (a lot of people thought it was fake and didn't believe it, but some people put together a discord server just in case). This Lemmy instance was then launched a little under a month later, and it was announced on the ark discord on like July 25th (I didn't see the message on the discord until a few days after it was posted).
I think there was an earlier discord that didnt take off as much that was around like, maybe even before the quarentine? I remember trying to join it, but being put off by their vetting process.
There was "Dirtbag HQ" which was around since well before the ban, I joined that but I don't recall any vetting process. There could well have been another discord though, I was a relatively casual user of the old sub for most of my time on it.
I would argue it was probably the other way around. Thedonald had already hemorrhaged most of its core posters to other splinter communities by the time the ban hit, while cth was still going strong.
Actually The Donald was completely dead and locked by the mods, and they used "banning" THAT as the excuse to ban us.