Genzedong and informedtankie on reddit too as sadly lemmy isn’t doing so hot at the moment due to this site cannibalizing a large chunk of what might have been its userbase.
As a note: the Lemmy devs explicitly expressed a preference for this site to be spun off instead of a Chapo instance being made on the Lemmy.
They wanted to keep the Lemmy an explicitly ML space, and Chapo’s userbase wasn’t that.
We have a lot of MLs, and more and more since learning a few hard lessons of electoralism, but it’s different enough to warrant separate spaces. Ours is more conducive to reforming liberals.
Hopefully the Lemmy gets more activity after federation. Dessa has put in a lot of work into both the code base and resource compiling. Even if we aren’t on the same site, there’s a lot of respect for them here.
As a note: the Lemmy devs explicitly expressed a preference for this site to be spun off instead of a Chapo instance being made on the Lemmy.
They wanted to keep the Lemmy an explicitly ML space, and Chapo’s userbase wasn’t that.
We have a lot of MLs, and more and more since learning a few hard lessons of electoralism, but it’s different enough to warrant separate spaces. Ours is more conducive to reforming liberals.
Hopefully the Lemmy gets more activity after federation. Dessa has put in a lot of work into both the code base and resource compiling. Even if we aren’t on the same site, there’s a lot of respect for them here.