It's that y'all are terrible at picking names for a social media site, shits like if parler was gonna be named "whitepride.topkek" or "thesouthwillrise.up". Please take the time spent complaining that no one asked you for alternatives and instead use that to come up with something that doesnt sound like a single use gimmick joke site like "communismwill.win" that just sounds like a blank page with a karl marx le trollface saying "Communism will win, problem burgeroise?"

  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    4 years ago

    It's not that necessary to beat the reader over the head that its a LEFTISM SITE PLEASE COME HERE FOR YOUR LEFTISM NEEDS THIS IS A LEFTISM SITE WE ARE ALL LEFTISTS HERE COME HERE FOR THE REVOLUTION, when it comes at the expense of just the name being simply memorable and look relatively serious without gimmick domain name jokes like .ml

    • garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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      4 years ago

      i dunno what this weird mindset is that you guys are trying to hide that this is a leftist site to try to trick the libs into coming and then 'converting' them. it's very odd to me.

      advertising that this site is leftist to me in the name is a good idea. even if they want to change it from chapo, i get that the hexagon bear was a cool emblem and all, but it doesn't shout 'leftist.'

      if we didn't want a leftist site we'd just be at reddit. we can't say what we want there from a leftist perspective, hence we're here.

      • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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        4 years ago

        Its not hiding it, its just not frontloading it and making us look like obsessively leftist. It has the benefit of taking some of the seriousness away so this is a left leaning space you can hang out in rather than a leftist left site for leftists to talk about leftism.

        And again you can just advertise it as a leftist site without making the url and name into a big hammer and sickle which just makes us look lame and uncreative.

          • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah so why make the name sound like a buncha squares arguing about das kapital.

            • garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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              4 years ago

              i'm not for putting anything that's strictly ML in the name, but focusing on the idea that we lean left and are for shitposting is probably good idea.

              • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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                4 years ago

                Its kinda easy to say that but from the suggestions Ive seen in the two suggestion threads it basically just turns into "we wanna show people we are leftists and like shitposting, lets name ourselves leftistsshitposte.rs" or some other domain name super clever joke.