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Caliban and the Witch is a solid read

I mentioned this when all this drama originally started but this site falls into the same pitfalls as small leftist organisations IRL that develop cliques around vocal members and inevitably split over personal issues (Or become a Maoist polycule which I don't think will be an issue for Hexbear)

I do think if you're a moderator the most important skill is identifying the difference between wreckers/problematic users and someone who just makes bad posts once in a while. Good moderation outside of the janitor work is essentially just having the social skills to read the vibe and mediate disputes which many asocial/neurodivergent people lack. Nothing wrong with that but you should be able to look at yourself and see that if you lack those skills you are probably not suited for being a spokesperson for a community.

The reddit mobile web page actually handles it pretty well by making the pinned posts take up one side-scrolling iframe

I'll always remember how the movie First Man failed at the box office because it wasn't blatantly propagandising about the Americans winning the Space Race but instead just a movie about a deeply lonely and traumatised Neil Armstrong. Americans just want to see Neil Armstrong and his pal Buzz Aldrin sticking an American flag on the moon while the riff from Free Bird plays

We do not support class traitor Vi and Ku Klux Kiramman

Youtubers used to work 10 hour a day grinds trying to make daily videos to feed the algorithm whereas now you just need a few hours of high quality content a year to live comfortably off Patreon/Nebula/etc revenue. I'd feel like an absolute fraud too and pretend i'm burned out

The fact that you can remove the link to your tweet from any quote tweets on bluesky removes one of the fundamental aspects that make Twitter work (bullying annoying people)

As a side note, having spent way too much time moderating on the internet myself, there is a absolutely a type of admin/mod who sees themselves as different and above the rabble because of their role and spend way too much time in secret mod chats talking about their userbase. Personally I can't deal with debating issues with people when a big "I can ban you" badge hangs over my username but i've seen too many people whose online persona hinges on it and it's very unhealthy.

I love my niche communist internet forum that avoids the pitfalls of niche internet forums and communist organisations

Phrasing it like she's gonna start calling Latinos slurs because they weren't good little minorities voting for the Dems

It has begun

They fucked up when they forced Putin to run an economy instead of just a more managed form of oligarchic looting