This post may be seen as factionalism and not productive, but I figure I mine as well pose the question:
Are you planning on keeping a presence on at least a few of the subreddits and continue posting there while also building up Chapochat?
I had originally planned on just "cutting over" and leaving it for dead, but then I realized that there is a lot of potential for slow/steady growth if we had a decent userbase which was still active on various lefty subreddits. We could occassionally crosspost text posts from here and have discussion on those subs about whatever we're talking about here.
That should naturally lead to more users on ChapoChat.
Another thing is that I don't want spez and those fashlibs to feel any more satisfaciton in killing the largest leftist subreddit than they need to - as a full on exodus of the dirtbag left allows their neoliberal ilk to run amok on the platform moreso than in the past.
Having said all that, I think r/DemocraticSocialism has had a decent uptick in activity since 'the ban' so I think naturally that is where a lot of the CTH refugees may have moved over to. They seem like one of the less weird lefty subs, in that they like to post memes and the mods don't seem like memes themselves, in that they are not overbearing from what I have seen.
Any other subs that you think are worth posting in these days? Personally my past experience with a lot of them has been negative, but maybe things have changed?
The old Chapo sub used to grow by people seeing our posts and comments on other subs, checking out our profiles, and finding chapo in our comment history. What I did on Reddit was make a post to my own profile with a link to this site, and pinned it. That's less likely to get us new users than it was on Reddit, but it's better than nothing.
High key it's also because we would regularly get into bitchfights with other subreddits, and that gave us clout
i heard neolib and stupidpol were screenshotting us already , so that might not be true
We could do it though
9gag became the bogeyman of reddit for a minute there without doing anything
On new Reddit (browser), go to your own profile and click "new post" in the right sidebar. It'll automatically be set to post to your own profile.
On mobile, click the new post button, and for the "community" option, select your own profile.
Idk about old reddit.
You'll have mod controls over posts on your own profile, so you can pin from there
full o7 to anyone that can fucking deal with that site now we have an alternative. honestly any part of reddit aside from The Pack and like r/sewing is just infuriating to me now
GenZedong is usually pretty good, and DankLeft is tolerable for the most part
I use my reddit account but at this point it's entirely non-political
I'm only on reddit to snarkpost in my city sub; it's fun to see the -25 and +25 karma scores between posts depending on who I'm shitting on
I'll wildly fluctuate in the same thread sometimes lol. +50 on one and -25 followed by +10 on a response.
I keep using reddit a little bit to make some propaganda from time to time, but being on this website can really get just so painful. I fucking hate it, even tho chapo.chat is not that badly received when evoked in the right subs.
Already engaging in crossposting, screenshots with watermarks including the chapo.chat address and generally bringing it up in comments.
It is absolutely essential for the growth of the site. There were 150k people in the subreddit and it will take months to find and inform them of the new site. People are slow moving and have other shit they do. Gotta keep pressing, be consistent, keep posting, build it up.
Consistency is key. Commit and make it a routine.
If you still maintain a presence in subreddits, I would absolutely encourage ppl to keep that up, and to incorporate content from chapo into your posting there. Like Awoo said, we have to help our fellow chapos hear about us. They're prolly spread out in diaspora in all of the super-libby subs of reddit, which is sad. We need to help them hahahaha
Also tho, make chapo the new twitter screenshot, you know? Share and link. There are amazing takes and hilarious posts here all the time, and the more ppl come to associate that vibe with chapo, the better, imo .
the more they talk about us the stronger we'll become
I still use reddit. Also does anyone know why it keeps saying "score too low" when I try to post on main here? Is it like an upvote thing or a time thing?
We don't use karma here.... we've built an AI that is able to determine if you are a good poster based on your comments.
Yeah I think I'll keep using reddit, partly for non political subs and partly to try and keep engaging with lefties - and ideally guiding them here.
Also to keep leftist ideas available on a much larger platform. Posting is the lowest form of praxis, but it can and does radicalize people, which the left badly needs.
