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.
I think having every episode of the podcast pinned at the top helped a lot honestly. Set the tone of the whole sub.
Now we have a seriouspost + a megathread filled with factionalist stuff at the top and it gives a totally different vibe.
This is an injured community, fractured by the nuking of the sub, of course it wont be the same, we’re more skittish, more angry, and we snap at the drop of a hat.
It’ll need time to level out, but with every new community some people put through the effort to make themselves power users, which helps a growing community stay engaged, but it cant stay like that forever.
This has really always been a safe leftist pressure valve for me, a great spot to offload shit on my mind. I dont think many others are treating it like that. But I’m in a nice position where I can come and go and I dont have to make it the kind of deal where people make threads about how I left and how we’re driving people away.
We’re expecting too much if you think we can relive the days of the subreddit, it’s changed, we’ve changed, and the podcasts changed.
r/CTH was not birthed out of nothing with its enjoyable yet edgy yet accepting nature preformed. It came to be what it was, by over a year of people migrating there from the stuck-up socialist subs, among other things.
This site is also a becoming. It has thousands of recognizable posters from the sub, more leeway to customize things, and is not beholden to Reddit admins. It feels more personal here, even if we don’t outrage Reddit quite as much from this position (yet, lol). Plus, we’ve had lots of novel and juicy struggle sessions, and an advent of beanposting and birdposting and more types of posting than I can count offhand.
I’m optimistic about it.
I used to be a person that posed constantly on the sub but only got a couple big ones.
I agree that it’s not the same. Without the chapo name, if I wasn’t here for the ride since the sub I wouldn’t believe anyone that said it’s the same without the pig poop balls.
It’s pretty damn good tho, or at least, better than anything else i know of.
Stick with us comrade, no point ditching before it totally goes to shit and stays there. Which may not ever happen. It might only go up…like GME
