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.
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