This place is a fraction of the size, people are leaving even that, the Discord changed it's name not to be "Chapo" associated anymore...
It saddens me that we'll likely never be whole again like we once were.
Big same
Was always intimidated on the sub
I like that it's not so big here
I was on the sub in 2017 back when it was about this size. It makes me think of this site.
It took years for the sub to become what it became. This site can become that if we make sure transphobes don't destroy us.
tectonic plates shift; rivers carve canyons; online communities spring up, grow, and then peter out, get shut down, or fall into an eternal waking death of of stale mediocrity.
the subreddit was built up over a period of multiple years. it was undeniably something special that can't just be photocopied onto a new domain name. but we can build something here too, something new. i went back and read https://hexbear.net/about. the leadership here clearly give a shit about this place. it's only been half a year since we got banhammered. i know it feels like the end of the world everywhere in general, and it has for the last couple decades, or maybe ever since you got invested in left wing politics, but there's beginnings too, and we're still on our bullshit.
Yeah, Parler jokes are funny and all but there's definitely some red flags. We all pretty much knew deplatforming on this scale was possible, but I'm a bit alarmed at how efficient it's been.
Tbh i feel like the site tried to do too much too fast. Mind you the og sub was literally one main page and that was it. Not to say that making special sub communities was a bad thing overall, I just feel like we spit up into too many sub groups on the site without the necessary amount of people to do it. Either way theres always gonna be room to improve and bumps along the way but I dont see the user count taking any time soon.
Tbh i feel like the site tried to do too much too fast. Mind you the og sub was literally one main page and that was it. Not to say that making special sub communities was a bad thing overall, I just feel like we spit up into too many sub groups on the site without the necessary amount of people to do it
I could not agree more.
At the same time, subgroups are what differentiate us from any other socialist community I can think of. I like having a space like /c/gardening where there's political comradery outside of a political context. My mycology and horticulture goals are deeply intertwined with my politics and the plant/fungi subreddits are apolitical spaces where discussing that sucks. Radicalising someone along the lines of their employment is much easier than getting them interested in economics or history first.
I think those will really pay off around 50k subscribers. c/main would be a nightmare by now so it's starting to become more beneficial than detrimental, but when we get to 1-5 posts per day with 5-10 comment engagement on them then they become breeding grounds for interesting discussions you wouldn't see in c/main. If we're to attract more people the selling point needs to be better than shitposting. There are still decent socialist subreddits with shitposting.
All the sub communities are definitely what brought me back to this site after initially thinking "oh that's cool", making an account, lurking briefly, then not coming back for months and forgetting my password. It's cool how this site can just be like any other forum except that everyone is a communist.
Local elections bb - city council, state legislature, even US house
the Discord changed it’s name not to be “Chapo” associated anymore
I havent looked at the discord in a while, but thats hilarious and I fully support it
If by "clique" you mean "cis dudes completely incapable of self-crit", you're right
I don't really give a fuck about internet drama and I honestly just come here to shitpost, but what exactly has occurred? From what I gather people are upset about getting downvoted? Is that it?
I had sort of the same impression before I looked at the modlogs, most shit is removed before you or I have time to see it, but there has been a shit load of transphobia for some fucking reason. The downvote thing was bc pro-trans comments were getting downvoted en masse I'm pretty sure.
Yeah, I think keeping "chapo" in the title attracts the dirtbag left Cumtown stupidpol types.
I'm gonna be honest I never understood the hexbear thing. First I saw of it someone posted it in cth3 and that's a hell of a way to be introduced to something.
So the only reason this isn't Garfield themed is a matter of timing?
The only three acceptable emotions are actually, nostalgia, wistfulness, and detached contentment.
This is Portuguese erasure. Saudade is a top tier leftist emotion.
iF wAtEr Is So GoOd WhY CaNt YoU DeScRiBe It WiThOuT ReFeReNcInG HyDrOgEn
You’ve activated my trap card, I want to die. I will not explain
Actually fuck it comrade, I’m nowhere near eloquent enough to explain it. For real tho, listen to this and you’ll know the feel. https://youtu.be/W0CBzKfvA80
If it helps at all, saudade has nostalgia as a component, but has more to it. Like, you wouldn’t call a sandwich just bread. You wouldn’t have a sandwich without the bread, but without the other stuff it’s just bread and still not a sandwich.
Closer, but a closer comparison would be nostalgic hauntology.
Another key component is that there is the known impossibility of ever experiencing again that which one is remembering.
Idk if that’s intended, but it definitely vibes with my understanding of it
Lol it’s ok if you give me a minute I’ll try and explain why it’s different from nostalgia, I gotta relisten to a lecture I recorded first tho because I’ll admit it’s really hard to express In English and I dropped Portuguese kinda early because my speech impediment stops me pronouncing foundational phonemes
I still see more people in the "online" label than I did a month ago. IDK how accurate that is.
idk the sub only got good and big after late 2018, there where still weird stupidpol types until like 2019, in theory the weird nasty toxicity would probably go away as chapo.chat gets bigger and intersects with more communities in the way that it did on reddit, i appreciated the chaotic shit poster energy from the sub
wasn't that sub also problematic af? but no one had any illusions that it was going to be great, b/c it's reddit? idk maybe it was a breeze for the mods and there were no transphobes ever. lol
