Missing those days of the old subreddit when I was just getting engaged in lefty politics. That sub was so uplifting. So many detailed analyses that I wish I saved. So many hilarious posts that always filled me with joy. Before I found the old sub I thought leftists were humorless assholes but r/cth really brought me along and cemented myself as a leftist.
I can’t exactly pin what’s different here but the whole vibe is off. I really wish it could capture the spirit of the old place but I’m not so sure. I know I’m not the most prolific poster but I’ve given this place 6-7 months and I’m not certain whether I want to continue or not. I’ll admit, I got caught up in the GME hype. Maybe because I seriously thought my life would materially improve at least slightly. I’m done with that stocks shit for right now. The split that happened on the site as a result of it was pretty bad. I really hope we can all do better, especially at lashing out at each other.
If you’re from the old sub who’s been along for the ride I thank you from the bottom of my heart. My life is much richer thanks to you all of you.
the whole vibe is off.
pretty much how I’ve felt about everything in life since last March
Yeah, looking through the memes I had saved from the sub, I can say that the current bits are higher quality on average. The sub was mostly just bernie posting at the end.
Bernie posting with some “Where did this bring you, back to me :lenin-pensive:” posting every time Bernie got ratfucked or did something liberal. I think that the sub was starting to get better after Corbyn lost but then again we might have just been seeing electoralists become doomers (and doomerism is liberalism). I don’t think we should write this project off just because it will never be like the old sub, that was probably never an option.
It’s because half the site is scold posts and the other half is the same few jokes repeated over and over again
Shit sucks
The scold posting here is fucking out of control. That’s the main difference between this place and the main sub. We didn’t have 40 threads every day mocking people for eating things differently.
It’s because this site has the most on-edge admins possible for a board with like 300 posters.
Any infringement gets a ban here, when the users just used to bully the shitty people off the sub on cth.
The scoldposts are all you get left when they foster a culture like that.
our admins are absolute angels compared to the moderators of any given leftbook group, and i would lay down my life for them
You see the bias in being self-selected as one of the few remaining users here, then saying you love the moderation style?
Tell me I’m wrong that the administration here kicks off a lot of active users over petty grievances.
If you wanna hang out on reddit, hang out on reddit. This isn’t reddit. It’s something different. It’s trying to be a welcoming place on the internet. That means banning a LOT of assholes.
I’m not sure about what you’ve been seeing, but I’ve seen a LOT of comrades getting banned in threads for nothing. I’ll stumble across multiple banned flaired accounts every day and read through what they post, not understanding why they’ve been kicked off the site.
You’re literally a moderator here, which would make sense as to why you 're caping for the moderators, but to call this site welcoming is a bit misleading considering the militant style of ‘welcoming’ to a very select few within the left we do.
but when will you be post posting post posts? i posit that youll have gone postal by then. ill see myself out.
I like it, it’s small. I know everyone. I can share things I like and get into good discussions about them without being called a dirty commie or harassed. I can’t even go on Reddit anymore, just makes me to upset. Here is perfect.
People are pointing to primaries and yes the sub got very very dark after Bernie lost (I pretty much stopped posting and moved to twitter), but the sub was fucking amazing once the protests started. The daily megathreads, the shitposts, the collective fascination at police cars being smashed. It became such a positive good vibe place.
I’ve said this since the beggining, but I think having comms was a mistake. What was great about the sub was that it was a huge mishmash of shitposts and effort posts. There was no such thing as off topic.
Ultimately though this place is great, I’m thankful for the admins and mods keeping the community going. I think the closer we get to the original userbase of the subreddit the better it’s gonna be
Yes, how is a site with at most 1000 users online at a time justified in splitting into 50 different communities and then expecting that to function like the entirety of Reddit.
From the beginning I advised against that, all the way back on the initial Discord.
All it does is factionalize even further and promote tribalism on a site that would not even be considered a small subreddit.
The way to fix it now would to return to one board with a lot of posts, just one main site with no smaller communities because that achieves nothing right now besides emphasizing how empty this place is.
I like the coms having c/fitness or c/food let’s us discuss shit that has little to nothing to do leftisum while still not having to deal with all the bullshit that comes with reddit.
We could just use the main page as we did the subreddit for those things. A flairing system would go a long way towards the function you’re talking about, not a split community system on a subscription basis.
I was an advocate of streamlining the channels to make things easier on that end when I was modding there, but I left shortly after that. Fewer channels definitely makes things easier to follow
did nobody consider a tag structure+filter (I don’t need to see gardening posts, not looking for direct action stuff today) instead of subdirectories?
I mean, I’m always a slut for that sort of structure literally anywhere in literally anything, but I do think it’s the best idea here.
I think we should have more comms personally. There is literally no difference if you sort by all. I usually don’t even look at what comm stuff is posted in
If we didn’t have comms, the front page would be entirely made up of twitter screenshots (like the old sub) and everything else would get buried in new.
It takes 2 seconds to look at a shitpost and upvote it whereas it takes 5 minutes to read through an effortpost and engage in discussion. That’s why having multiple comms is good, it gives effortposts a chance.
Yeah, a brand new site with 13k users is going to have a different meta than an established forum with 300k. The people who came here were the ones that really cared about having a space for leftist discussion and we lost a lot of the shitposters that were just passing through.
I never really expected this to be the same as the sub and I’m cool with that, it’s an entirely different thing. Plus the sub didn’t have emoji :sankara-salute:
We had hope that electoralism could work and there was a golden path that led to president sanders and a better world.
We aren’t the same people and twitter isn’t the same river.
do you view the sanders campaign as “being the last off-ramp to fascism” now in retrospect?
I’ve only been a member of the community after the sub was banned so I’m asking out of curiosity. most comrades here/now see Bernie as being a lib who is to be respected, but I saw him as something much more back then. now with all the AOC good/bad posts, idk how you people see lib politicians anymore.
I think I’ve certainly gotten more aware of the cons of reforming a corrupt system since then. like it might iron out the insane contradictions, but it also might give more life to an empire that’s a net negative for the world.
shit does look bleak tho.
I think my own perception is that the highway itself is fascist, and Bernie was the last off-ramp in sight, and now we’re in the car trapped going in a direction that we all know will end in disaster but we can’t turn around.
