I was a long time lurker of r/cth and it was the only sane place I could go on Reddit to read shit that wasn’t saturated with racist memes about where I was born (China). Like I don’t even live there and haven’t for decades but fuck me is it wearying to see sOCiAl CrEDIt SCorE jokes on every fucking thread. Anyway I’m done with Reddit and was hanging around general lemmy instances and found y’all through the federation noise. I guess this post was kind of pointless but I’m just happy this community is still around.
Love & peace x
Many comrades were scattered to the winds that probably weren't online enough to know where we went. Everything happened so quickly, if you were logged off for just 3 days you could have missed the lifeboat discord and the subreddit's banning, along with most of the possible discussion of alternatives.
It's honestly a bit surprising that so many made it across in the first place.
Talk about Hexbear more, there's literally no reason not to and every time you do more people find it. Wreckers will pop up when you mention it trying to spread shit to stop people coming over but they're extremely easy to ignore. We built up a culture of silence about the place due to the performance problems the site was having - there is no reason to have that anymore, we should be promoting again.
I hated the discord era but it did help keep a good chunk of us in touch.
Sad so many of us got scattered. At least we get to celebrate when one of them make it back.
Yeah discord causes immense problems outside of small groups, once you get over like 30-50 active people in one space it quickly dissolves into quite a lot of personal conflicts.
Not that personal conflicts don't happen here but discord makes them far more public and stressful for people involved, which plays into ongoing issues day after day. You get them in any setting but different formats make them present in less problematic ways.
the exception to this is servers designed for a specific purpose, at least in my experience
like large ttrpg servers have been drama free for me
I run a server of 1000+ and uh... there are certainly headaches. But it's not too bad because it is a specific purpose/marginalised community server.
I find I'm either shut out of conversations because America/Europe are asleep, or the chat moves too fast to have conversations (on servers above a size)
The return of the Diaspora Hexbears
Yeah, I missed the actual final day or two. Found out about the discord due to some comrade DMing me, went there, hated it because I'm old and not online enough for Discord, but eventually heard about this place there.mlurked and joined about 3 years ago. Shoutout to that comrade who DM'd me. I'd have hated to have had to spend the last few years embroiled in the great scratched-liberalisation of Reddit.
I hated discord so much I cried in the slow channel enough that our nerds added me to the beta site asap to shut me up.
Discord: bad for the slow reactioned normals, bad for socialism.
I only found this place because some weirdo CHUD mentioned chapo.chat in a response to Will Menaker on Twitter, completely unrelated to anything he was talking about
thank you for your service dipshit CHUD redditor
Exactly. Just mention the place, even in weird out of context ways. If each one drags in one person and then we build a culture of those people also doing this we can rather significantly spread Hexbear.
Is the lifeboat discord still around?
It is, though theresome tension between here and there
The infighting is the leftist love language 🥰