Honestly thought that when this site launched we'd have a bunch of chuds coming in and posting 4chan-tier crap we can just laugh at. Did not expect our first big attack would come from ... supposedly the inside. Crazy shit. Props for doing your best to handle it transparently.
You aren't a real leftist until instead of arguing with fascists or neoliberals, you start purity testing and ostracising members of your own movement who are literally making a safe space for you to communicate.
We're absolutely big enough for the feds to try to fuck with us. The old sub had ~150K users and (this part may be a surprise) there's a podcast with the same name that's pretty successful on Patreon. Note also that fucking with online communities is so easy it's almost trivial -- you don't actually need to go out and do anything, all you have to do is shitpost from some windowless room in northern Virginia. Compare that to all the real-world work various law enforcement agencies did to fuck with the Black Panthers, who had a membership of about 5,000.
Dude...the Black Panthers were WAY more impactful than anything /r/chapotraphouse has done. The feds might be logging our online history, but there's no cointelpro shit here.
What they're getting at is that while the Black Panthers were way more impactful (understatement, but it's hard not to understate) it's also way easier to fuck with us than the black panthers. So the time investment:total fuckery ratio might still be low enough that they're willing to do it.
It's multigenerational too! I've seen my mom get sucked into the most absolutely vicious discord drama in a community of boomer white ladies who all play a home design mobile game together
Honestly thought that when this site launched we'd have a bunch of chuds coming in and posting 4chan-tier crap we can just laugh at. Did not expect our first big attack would come from ... supposedly the inside. Crazy shit. Props for doing your best to handle it transparently.
You aren't a real leftist until instead of arguing with fascists or neoliberals, you start purity testing and ostracising members of your own movement who are literally making a safe space for you to communicate.
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I wish we were large enough that the feds would try to infiltrate us
We're absolutely big enough for the feds to try to fuck with us. The old sub had ~150K users and (this part may be a surprise) there's a podcast with the same name that's pretty successful on Patreon. Note also that fucking with online communities is so easy it's almost trivial -- you don't actually need to go out and do anything, all you have to do is shitpost from some windowless room in northern Virginia. Compare that to all the real-world work various law enforcement agencies did to fuck with the Black Panthers, who had a membership of about 5,000.
Dude...the Black Panthers were WAY more impactful than anything /r/chapotraphouse has done. The feds might be logging our online history, but there's no cointelpro shit here.
What they're getting at is that while the Black Panthers were way more impactful (understatement, but it's hard not to understate) it's also way easier to fuck with us than the black panthers. So the time investment:total fuckery ratio might still be low enough that they're willing to do it.
Absolutely, but:
i mean the black panthers accomplished a lot tho.. idk about /r/chapotraphouse
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Discord servers really seem to bring out the worst in people.
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It's multigenerational too! I've seen my mom get sucked into the most absolutely vicious discord drama in a community of boomer white ladies who all play a home design mobile game together
It's fucking crazy
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In many ways the experience was lovely though. I loved the People's Podcast and knowing I could chime in.