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this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
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Tbh I feel that this site has been more focused on culture war bullshit than before. And like, cutesy terminally online shitposts about power users or peepeepoopoo posting.
I know it's fun, but I do enjoy the more effortposty and analysis based content.
Or maybe I'm way off and reminiscing over something that never really was.
It is true the majority of the activity here is rage bait content.
But the site is getting old and the community is not realy growing, this is a larger issue with the western left after Bernie,
The old sub was different because when you're on reddit(and one of the biggest subs) there is always new people/controversies etc. In contrast even compared to the past here we already had our struggle sessions, we actualy had a fair amount of AOC/Bernie libs or not explicitly ML "socialists" and they all left a long time ago too.
Anyway the Ukraine war brought a lot of activity but it was downhill from there because Ukraine already lost this war over 6 months ago and now it is just throwing innocent black van teenagers into the meat grinder. I still keep myself informed and I rarely look at maps now because nothing is happening except a few timid Russian moves maybe.
If it is any consolation I think it is a pretty safe bet things will get more active again during US election years just like it was in 2020.
Yeah, I agree. I am actually looking forward to the U.S elections for that reason alone.
I think that we are a community capable of creating/researching/curating some great content. Ukraine/Russia has been a great example.
I just think that we should get into issues that aren't necessarily the hot topic of the moment.
I am actually tempted to put some feelers out for the starting of a community researching project. I think we have a varied knowledge base and if we could put our collective minds to use in mapping the history of a country/region/issue in a similar way to the Ukraine stuff. Even with the Ukraine stuff, there are so many great takes and stats that go under the radar that I think are worthy of preservation, fact checking, and then acceptance into the mega-folder/document.
I think this is an excellent idea and believe that @[email protected] has said something very similar. It was the major impetus behind the COTW thing that was started a few weeks back. It might be worth hitting him up to discuss further.
COTW?
Country of the week.
Oh, nice. That's cool.