I joined chapo.chat from the discord. I was hopeful that we would be able to bring back some of what the chapo reddit was, a fun place for shitposting and I dunno, maybe praxis? What I see here is just all of the most hardcore people from chapo saying that eveyone who isn't on chapo.chat sucks. We don't have nearly the numbers for that to be a sustainable strategy. Right now, the hot feed is very "not fun". Lots of recrimination of people. A weird amount of fighting about china, and not nearly enough pig poop balls. That is all.
Yeah hot algorithm is ass right now. Decay doesn’t set in for posts if they get regular comments, so discussions just stay up.
Devs are pushing a fix ASAP, within the next day or two hopefully.
Please shitpost with us
Hot is basically controversial since comments keep things alive for so long lol
There’s a solution: go to the (good, non-controversial) top posts of the last few days and leave a comment. It bumps them up to Hot front page again.
It’s really easily abusable by anyone wanting to force the front page to look a certain way, but it’ll work for adding variety until mods can put in a new algorithm.
New gang’s cool and all, but browsing Top/Day and Top/Week to find and bump the best posts that dropped off the front page? That’s real Stakhanovite shit right there.
We gotta re-activate the Bernie libs. Post chapo.chat links in your local DSA discord.
Growing pains. Once this place stops being brigaded, it’ll start to get a community and culture of its own. I’m hoping it’ll be similar to, but improved from, the sub. I wouldn’t want it to be identical. Hopefully we can get some people in here who instinctively hate reddit because it’s a hive of reaction, but who are cool leftists who will be enjoyable to post with.
Yeah. but this is also a critical period. If people come here because it is linked on r/trueanon or whatever and they see it isn't fun they will leave imediately. Thats the direction I think it is going. How much moderation is there? Clearing the brigading posts quickly seems like it is critical.
There's that, which I think the devs are aware of, and iirc they are also planning tweaking the hot algorithm so that the FP isn't always full of struggle sessions
Yeah generally speaking this shit sucks and I'm only here bc I'm both banned from the discord and too alienated from in real life to log off entirely from the Chapo internet
Someone (paraphrasing): guys I'm still a virgin and it bothers me
Me: virginity is a spook, dont worry about it
Person #3: spook is a slur
Me: not in this context, obviously. STFU
Mod: @me hey knock it off
Me: @mod suck me off
Real liberal language policing hours smh
It was a racist term used toward black people like literally 100 years ago. So banning someone for using it in a different way is just such obvious power tripping that I had to tell that mod to fuck themself lol
The modern use for spook is spy, especially in left circles. I don't see how whipping out the unused slur thesaurus will do anyone any good
It's the worst fucking type of wokescolding.
Tbh tho if a person like that is a mod I'm better off not being a part of that community. All online left spaces are a psy op, but discord especially so.
The discord has like 100 channels and even if you are 24/7 online you can't follow all the drama. I missed that whole trans people getting banned phenomenon even though I used it a lot
They censor a lot of words on this site too, it's really weird for an alternative to CTH
They loosened the filter so you can say acab and stuff now. The previous version was a carryover from the upstream Lemmy instance, and they run their community differently than we do.
Yeah I think there's a divide in the community bt ppl who've embraced the dirt bag left aesthetic and those who haven't. But imo it is strictly aesthetic and doesn't reflect any of the real ideological disagreements the in the cth-exile-sphere
It sucks though because this place will never grow without that
Why would anyone stay here on this small offshoot site when they can say less than they can on Reddit which has more users
I'll stick to r/GenZedong or something
I don't understand the phrase "virginity is a spook" nor why the word spook would be a slur?
When I used the word spook i meant it's a "geist" as they would say in German. When you call something a spook you mean it's socially imagined and not a real thing. A common example of a spook is borders.
However IIRC spook was a derogatory term used to describe black people like 100 years ago
Look into Egoism and Max Stirner for former, slur for black people for latter
spook: not real thing, a ghost
spook: boomer-american racial slur for (I think) black people
Add to that that the moderator team is very conservative about their views on "being rude" and "cursing" at others here. Sucks
Plus it's a hot topic and comments keep things on the front page at the moment , so hopefully that gets fixed and the posts can die after a healthy amount of time.
