We’re going to need to participate on normie platforms like reddit in order to get more users & content here. We’re also going to want to have a place on reddit (and elsewhere) where some of our content can thrive and become more accessible.
Apparently, Facebook is already marking our URL as spam. I’d imagine reddit will follow if not already. So we can’t just dump links onto every marginally left-wing space.
Let this be a thread to spitball some ideas.
ok here is a trick
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take a twitter screenshot
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post to chapo chat
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screenshot chapo chat
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post on reddit
First and foremost, I think we should take inventory of what friendly subs already exist, and what niches are not already covered.
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r/AllTheLeft is an existing left unity sub, but idk how active it is. Reddit 100% needs to have a dank space where half of the content isn’t dedicated to shitting on anarchists or tankies.
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r/GenZedong and r/SendInTheTanks have significant traction in the ML space, but I’m sure they’re both on reddit’s shortlist for the banhammer.
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r/GenZAnarchist just went private, and r/COMPLETEANARCHY basically feels like a state department psyop. May need a replacement if no alternatives exist.
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r/LateStageCapitalism is for general anti-capitalism and is pretty active.
Also: if you have any other good subs, post em.
I don’t know how difficult scraping lemmy would be, but we could go the low effort route and use bots to repost popular content here to various subs, maybe watermark the image with our URL too. Basically map the various subs here to the closest ones on reddit and auto-post top content.
can’t forget r/antiwork, a bunch of disillusioned folks with a scattering of socialists thrown in. prime grounds to radicalize people who hate capitalism but haven’t quite gotten around to attributing their particular problems with capitalism directly yet
Throw these on that pile
/r/lostgeneration /r/studentloandefaulters /r/collapse /r/anticonsumption
Edit. The whole /r/talesfromretail universe is probably good, too.
Collapse is interesting, it used to be somewhat right-leaning, but has moved left a lot in the last couple of years
- /r/InformedTankie
- /r/DankLeft
- /r/DirtbagLeft
- /r/GenZommunist
- /r/LeftistVeterans
- /r/LeftPodcasts
- /r/PeterDaou
- /r/RedPreppers
- /r/Pete_Buttigieg
- /r/SocialistRA
- /r/SRAWeekend
- /r/TrotskyChapo
/r/Sigmarxism, when we first started we poached many of our members from /r/ChapoTrapHouse and /r/Gamerghazi.
There’s also a decent lefty Star Trek sub out there somewhere iirc.
/r/Pete_Buttigieg
Was that a Mayo Pete sub that was liberated by the left?
Also, it might be a good idea to piss off some reddit neolibs, and make it known where we came from. They’ll whine about us, and they’re insufferable enough to drive left-minded people to look into our community. I’m pretty sure they inadvertently signal boosted the original r/cth sub.
Posting quality content and useful resources. It’ll be great to have a radicalization sub that I can send to normies that isn’t full of inside jokes and crab emoji. But also just effort post about normal things. Cats, jobs you hate, fixing iphone screens, etc
It’s just gonna take time as we build them out
Yeah, always feels weird to explain basic shit here, or to assume that people don’t agree with basic assumptions.
I guess we just start posting the shit, maybe with a tag or something, and see if it takes off.
Change you wanna be, etc etc
Once Lemmy gets the stickying option to work, maybe @ScreamoBMO and the mods can sticky a “welcome new users” post.
We should make burner throwaways and brigade the fuck out of reddit now that we’re already banned.
Hell, we probably have enough numbers here to signal boost a lot of shit to the frontpage already.
Also posting screen caps of informative or funny conversations here might be a boon. Just don’t crop hexbear and the ChapoChat header, and that could generate a decent amount of search traffic if our SEO isn’t ass.
