This is cursed and also a perfect answer :freeze-peach: :pit:

Proposal for a sufficiently anticapitalist Lemmyverse:

• Establish an internal and external community on a per-instance basis
• Internal comms act as a Community of Practice focusing on keeping members up to date on leftist news, hosting educational resources for organizing, reading theory, and maintaining a party line.
• External comms are agit prop, memes, and more generally consumable/engaging content. Self-organized events like cytube gatherings are excellent.
• External comms are heavily gamified. Internal comms are not. Alternately, internal comms can alter design to encourage consensus building rather than competition and group reputation.
• Admins and moderators should be routinely pruned on an ideological basis. The broader community should not have purity requirements. The leadership should be largely on the same page.

If I were Reddit and wanted to get the commies off my site once and for all, I’d see the banning of r/CTH as a failure. We scattered and couldn’t centralize content “democratically”, but most of us didn’t leave. They took away our toys but didn’t send us to our room. They may be banning these sister subs earlier this time to give people the message that they’re supposed to move to lemmygrad.

Because our abilities to socialize, to express ourselves, to collaborate, and to construct our identities are all commonly held assets, as abstract as that is. There are so many situations and products whose value increases as more people participate. With the internet, these have potential to create mass swaths of value simply by gathering large amounts of people. Since bandwidth is cheaper than land and development, it lowers the barriers to gathering that large amount of people. So the tech cartel have taken control of the means by which those gatherings can occur and made them artificially scarce.

If they were they’d be better

Edit: oh wait no they wouldn’t

More :bait:

Wow this thread is such a mess I may be making a long post about why I’m leaving

:PIGPOOPBALLS:

It took me months to unlearn the tension of always waiting for someone to pick an argument

They learned their lesson with CTH. If you get big enough as a leftist sub you’ll start making headlines in increasingly mainstream publications

This is how it happens. They do it all in a big wave coordinated between different social media sites. Either that or they just schedule their spring cleaning on the same weeks

Can admins not see locked channels in slack?

I have a whole rant about how corporations are bad at manipulating people in this one very specific way. Slack and Teams at a sufficiently large company are effectively small-scale social media networks. And if you want a community online to adopt a social norm, SOP is to provide educational resources on why the change is necessary and then use sockpuppets to model the intended behavior. Some corporations will even plant union busters in their new hire trainings to make it look like your peers are anti-union. So they understand the basic principle. But they just haven’t figured out how to replicate this dynamic on Slack because it’s kinda hard to create convincing sockpuppet coworkers in Slack.

Oh shit oh fuck

It’s one of my favorites tbh

I’d like to see another version of this poll which lets people pick multiple options of “what forms of political organising have you participated in recently” because genuinely if it’s just going to protests and posting it isn’t enough

I considered this, but even a poll this broad still got accused of fedposting. I was hoping to make it general enough that it wouldn’t scare people off and bias the results too much

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That’s just human interaction. I’ve heard horror stories about local musicians. That doesn’t mean I’m never attending a concert again. Organizing people is sometimes like herding cats, but it’s also sometimes like feeling empowered and at home for the first time in your life. It’s worth incorporating your own experience into whatever critiques you have

Feds don’t need strawpoll to know if you’re in an org js

I know this feeling. Seems like an unfortunately common pitfall