please god I just want a place to post maps that isn't run by a paleo-conservative power mod who removes any posts about Palestine and literally no other posts ever for any reason please mods I'm begging you I am smooching all over your toes right now mods please

    • EvilCorgi [they/them]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      I don't but a lot of people on Reddit do (ex: https://i.redd.it/dg76l7b3u2u51.png). I don't really have the photoshop chops for it.

      But there's also tons of high quality historical maps to post (ex: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a0/21/7b/a0217b4e6919da2b40b7d6725414a609.jpg)

      the Reddit cartography community basically touches on all three of the aspects you mentioned, with a bit of a bias towards the first and last ones.

        • EvilCorgi [they/them]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          Well depends on how you phrase the title but yeah basically. I posted two Palestine territorial control maps (one of which was this https://thefunambulistdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/political-cartography-of-palestine-lc3a9opold-lambert-funambulist-2014.jpg) and they both got silently removed

          meanwhile he refuses to moderate any other type of post or enforce any standard of quality because he's a free-market nerd (except Palestine I guess)

    • a_dog [any,he/him]
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      4 years ago

      on Laissez’s Fair, the forum that bred CTH, the maps thread was a great place. The thread is remade as “politically loaded maps” on D&D right now. The concept works.

        • a_dog [any,he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Cushbomb and Felix were both LF posters, for example. LF was the most interesting place on the internet, spawning both the reddit woke movement with Shitredditsays and the dirtbag left with Chapo Trap House.

          It started in 2007 or 2008 during the peak of internet libertarianism as a place to relegate Ron Paul supporters. But since it followed FYAD forum rules, anyone could go in and own the Ron Paul supporters. Eventually all but a few were driven out.

          LF then turned into an ironic and not ironic space where people would try to one-up each other in leftism. There was also learning about critical theory type stuff going on during this, with popular threads about the writing of Deleuze. The forum turned to Maoism-Third Worldism, because although it may seem impractical, it is very consistent. From MTW there is a natural fork in the road to woke idpol insanity, or the also non-racist but not insane dirtbag left.

          Eventually someone threatened to kill Barack Obama, and the forum was spammed with goatse and shut down.

          A lot of good internet left stuff comes from LF. Chapo, @getfiscal, shitredditsays (for the brief time it was good), the rhizzone to name a few.

      • Wisp [fae/faer, any]
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        3 years ago

        /r/worldbuilding is okay. There was a poll done on the demographic some time ago and there was a decent amount of lefties

        • Xenophile [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          The politics isn't really my problem with it. It's mods being overly strict about everything except low quality posts.

          • Wisp [fae/faer, any]
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            3 years ago

            Ah okay, I don’t think I ever posted my work there so I don’t have experience with that aspect

  • Padacuw [any]
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    4 years ago

    Hello mods I am have been asked to harass you until you make a maps community so here I am. @mods @mods @mods

  • KiaKaha [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Ok so at first I thought this was overly specific, but seeing as how your map posts consistently get top of the Lemmy, if you keep that up, why not?

  • thelasthoxhaist [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    i think it would be a good idea to mix a map community with a vexillology (flags) community, it would grow a lot thanks to the content of both and if it gets too big then we could just split it into two communities

    • EvilCorgi [they/them]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      My thoughts exactly. I think the overlap between the two communities can be summed up as "geopolitics nerds" and lumped together unless one starts to flood out the other.

      • thelasthoxhaist [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        geografy nerds with some world buiding comm, hey do you already have someone else for a mod team?, if not i would like to help

        • EvilCorgi [they/them]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          Oh I dunno, figure that's all up to the admins. I'd assume I'd be modding but I really have no idea, nor who else they'd put on the team.

          Annoy the admins about it so they'll make my map/flag subreddit faster :sicko-yes:

  • Pleasure_Hacktivist [doe/deer,hy/hym]
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    4 years ago

    What about a map place run by a paleo conservative power mom? She won't ban you from the forum, but you won't be invited to the Tupperware party again.