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.
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.
If you just read your feed then the comms are essentially a tagging system, except you can choose to not view certain tags
Leftists : secure own space
Also Leftists : immediately factionalize
Again, Leftists : :shocked-pikachu:
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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
Both philosophies have points, but it's gotta be one or the other. A federated platform was supposed to assists with this sort of thing too, cause people would be able to split off and do their own thing without fully segregating themselves
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.