We're going to need to participate on normie platforms like reddit in order to get more users & content here. We're also going to want to have a place on reddit (and elsewhere) where some of our content can thrive and become more accessible.
Apparently, Facebook is already marking our URL as spam. I'd imagine reddit will follow if not already. So we can't just dump links onto every marginally left-wing space.
Let this be a thread to spitball some ideas.
First and foremost, I think we should take inventory of what friendly subs already exist, and what niches are not already covered.
r/AllTheLeft is an existing left unity sub, but idk how active it is. Reddit 100% needs to have a dank space where half of the content isn't dedicated to shitting on anarchists or tankies.
r/GenZedong and r/SendInTheTanks have significant traction in the ML space, but I'm sure they're both on reddit's shortlist for the banhammer.
r/GenZAnarchist just went private, and r/COMPLETEANARCHY basically feels like a state department psyop. May need a replacement if no alternatives exist.
r/LateStageCapitalism is for general anti-capitalism and is pretty active.
Also: if you have any other good subs, post em.
I don't know how difficult scraping lemmy would be, but we could go the low effort route and use bots to repost popular content here to various subs, maybe watermark the image with our URL too. Basically map the various subs here to the closest ones on reddit and auto-post top content.
r/ABoringDystopia is pretty much like jokerfied LSC
The Bernie subs can get surprisingly left and will at least happily shit on Biden and electoralism at this point
can't forget r/antiwork, a bunch of disillusioned folks with a scattering of socialists thrown in. prime grounds to radicalize people who hate capitalism but haven't quite gotten around to attributing their particular problems with capitalism directly yet
Throw these on that pile
/r/lostgeneration /r/studentloandefaulters /r/collapse /r/anticonsumption
Edit. The whole /r/talesfromretail universe is probably good, too.
Collapse is interesting, it used to be somewhat right-leaning, but has moved left a lot in the last couple of years
Yeah, noticed that, too. Eventually it's hard to ignore capitalism as the villain if you are watching the world burn
Really? I've gotten the impression recently that r/collapse trending towards malthusianism and eco-fascism rather than de-growth and sustainability.
If you look at the larger posts theres always someone railing against capitalism in the comments.
Nah that's kinda where they started at, now it's more left-doomers
r/antiwork is how I found cth and got pushed further left.
/r/Sigmarxism, when we first started we poached many of our members from /r/ChapoTrapHouse and /r/Gamerghazi.
There's also a decent lefty Star Trek sub out there somewhere iirc.
/r/DaystromInstitute is a great place for pro-socialist effortposts in the context of Star Trek. They eat effortposts up, frown on oversimplified chud-style responses, and are low-traffic enough for a decent post to get good visibility.
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(to be honest I have been super slacking as a mod, haven't really been on reddit at all since r/ChapoTrapHouse was banned. Does not surprise me to hear, but we had a pretty good "childhood.")
/r/RedshirtsUnite/ is probably what you're thinking of? Unfortunately very inactive though.
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FBI: "Not this one, we can use this one"
Yeah maybe remove r/Pete_Buttigieg, I just visited and I can already feel the brain worms taking hold
Was that a Mayo Pete sub that was liberated by the left?
Also, it might be a good idea to piss off some reddit neolibs, and make it known where we came from. They'll whine about us, and they're insufferable enough to drive left-minded people to look into our community. I'm pretty sure they inadvertently signal boosted the original r/cth sub.
r/ShitLiberalsSay
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/r/antifascistsofreddit seems pretty good usually.
r/gamingcirclejerk is also good.
we may get a few people from r/sino
r/trueanon