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.
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
I just barely caught it, and it took me a ton of research and paying attention and asking around to untangle what happened. The mods wanted to keep it on the DL which is kinda understandable since there was an impending launch, but if they thought it would "blow over" then that was a mistake. Seems like it's sorta under control now though idk
from the update of this post: https://hexbear.net/post/3351 it becomes clear that there was a "Shork server", so some people set up a whole 'nother discord for drama from another discord, for Christ's sake! The mods have now said they won't be doing anything, there was no substantial issur.
I hope this site will reduce the usage of the chapo discord because it only breeds this bullshit
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