A friend sent me a spicy enough meme and I thought “heh, they are ready for HexBear”. So I almost sent them a link and then I thought “hold on, maybe they are put off by something, let’s check”; so made the little mental exercise of trying to discover hexbear for the first time.
Good lord, there’s too much terminally online shit, anybody sane would be repelled.
I lied there was no effort post
But what’s the point of this place if not a niche forum for extremely online leftists? I’m not very online myself, but one of the reasons I come here is to learn about all the ridiculously online bullshit I’d never ever see otherwise! It’s like being able to be extremely online without any of the downsides
You are totally right, is just the community is so cool I would love to share it with cool people stranded in shit communities where there are always a bunch of reactionary dipshits posting or commenting shit.
Exactly like what I found in r/chapotraphouse: a place that suddenly was mostly free of shitheads and made fun of idiots, made me laugh a lot and also taught me weird shit. A cool oasis.
Really r/cth showed me how fucking easy is to root out reactionary bullshit when you really want to get rid of it
Ppl have always had differing opinions on what the point of the place was/is. Whether it’s a pipeline or just a place to blow of steam. I used to be more in the former camp but now I think it’s fine if it’s just a shitposting forum, a little save room of the internet relatively free from reactionaries or liberal brain worms.
I think over time it’s kinda morphed more into the latter, and I think actually talking to people in meatspace is a better way to pipeline anyway. In my experience it’s way easier to change people’s minds or at least set them on the road for it irl, online people are just gut reacting to things.
Yeah I agree, I’d love for this site to become the pipeline r/CTH was, but until we have a connection to the rest of the internet, perhaps by federation, there isn’t much of a chance that happens. And becoming less niche by moderating away content that is too online will give up a lot of the site culture for really not much gain besides maybe a few more people joining every month.
On the other hand, I am worried about the site just fading out of existence. We used to have about 700 active daily users, but now it seems we’ve dipped to around 500. We do need to a find a way to at least get marginally more people interested or else we might just die out. Perhaps we should all put more of an active effort into watermarking, spreading the word on lefty friendly websites, and using the hobby oriented comms much more often.
I dunno man I think my shitposts are about as low hanging as you can get
Yes, I remember first going to the chapo subreddit and thinking to myself, “wait, aren’t these people liberals? why are they just spewing right wing stuff?”. Turns out I was half right.
I remember going to the Chapo subreddit and thinking “wait, don’t these people claim to be leftists? why are they obsessed with electoral politics?”
I remember going to the Chapo subreddit and thinking “wait, don’t these people claim to be leftists? why are they obsessed creating content for capitalist Reddit?”
I remember going to the Chapo subreddit and thinking “wait, don’t these people claim to be leftists? Why are they obsessed with having incestuous sex with their fathers?”
I was so confused by everyone making fun of libs. It took my r/politics brain a bit to adjust
My first encounter with anything chapo was getting trolled in the Pod Save America subreddit.
Godspeed to those brave comrades. :rat-salute:
Idk, I was greeted by a header with an orangutan saying it thinks it made a poopie. Seems pretty obviously leftist and welcoming to me
