Internet forums don't matter and you should be prepared to do something else with your time if you have to. Consider the original cth sub--eventually, it was taken down by Reddit with no recourse from any of us. Anybody like that poster who genuinely relied on it emotionally was thrown straight in the deep end, especially if they happened to be busy and not logging on during the period between which the ark discord was made and the sub was banned. They'd have just shown up for their slop one day and found that the sub was gone, and that anywhere old users from the sub gathered was being banned immediately. If they remembered specific usernames to check where people were going they'd likely enough find those accounts banned too.
So any amount of temporary downtime the sub ever did, any time that people were forced to get used to the idea of doing something else with their time without losing the place entirely, was ultimately positive imo. It helped to draw the line, that internet forums are not orgs and you need to form networks of people not irony-poisoned internet comedians. The point of the cth sub and of this site is to waste some time and laugh, and if you consider them anything more then imo you need to put effort into changing that.
Again, some people don't have much. I'm doing pretty well, but I have zero leftism in my life outside of here. I need catharsis.
I can't "organize" because I live in a town of 400 trump supporters. I'm so beaten down by work and chores, all I want to do is chill in my free time. I have hobbies. Hell, I have property and some good friends who are always down to hang out on weekends.
Not everyone is as fortunate as me. I'm not saying hexbear or /r/cth was the movement, but it was something. It was a place to expose others to ideas and self crit. There are a ton of leftists here who can draw a direct line to their radicalization through the aforementioned websites and podcasts. Thats worth something, and I've always hated the attitude of "it's just a prank bro". Or that this place is just a huge garbage dump. Maybe that's the way some people use it, but others get a lot more out of it.
Internet forums don't matter and you should be prepared to do something else with your time if you have to. Consider the original cth sub--eventually, it was taken down by Reddit with no recourse from any of us. Anybody like that poster who genuinely relied on it emotionally was thrown straight in the deep end, especially if they happened to be busy and not logging on during the period between which the ark discord was made and the sub was banned. They'd have just shown up for their slop one day and found that the sub was gone, and that anywhere old users from the sub gathered was being banned immediately. If they remembered specific usernames to check where people were going they'd likely enough find those accounts banned too.
So any amount of temporary downtime the sub ever did, any time that people were forced to get used to the idea of doing something else with their time without losing the place entirely, was ultimately positive imo. It helped to draw the line, that internet forums are not orgs and you need to form networks of people not irony-poisoned internet comedians. The point of the cth sub and of this site is to waste some time and laugh, and if you consider them anything more then imo you need to put effort into changing that.
Again, some people don't have much. I'm doing pretty well, but I have zero leftism in my life outside of here. I need catharsis.
I can't "organize" because I live in a town of 400 trump supporters. I'm so beaten down by work and chores, all I want to do is chill in my free time. I have hobbies. Hell, I have property and some good friends who are always down to hang out on weekends.
Not everyone is as fortunate as me. I'm not saying hexbear or /r/cth was the movement, but it was something. It was a place to expose others to ideas and self crit. There are a ton of leftists here who can draw a direct line to their radicalization through the aforementioned websites and podcasts. Thats worth something, and I've always hated the attitude of "it's just a prank bro". Or that this place is just a huge garbage dump. Maybe that's the way some people use it, but others get a lot more out of it.