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anarchists and Marxists, mainly. I think there's a couple of trots around but they don't post much and I've never seen someone catch a ban for sectarianism for shitting on them or leftcoms. TERFs are fascists, no ifs ands or buts. bigotry of any variety will get you dunked on and banned faster than you can refresh the page.
something with the migration from our fork to lemmy proper - svgs got converted to large pngs and our instance knows to rescale them but other instances don't. I think they're planning to fix it, as funny as it is.
the rest are just long-standing jokes that go back to the old subreddit. a lot of us can't stand the pod and it hasn't really come up much in years.
Yeah, Trots are nominally allowed, but the site culture leans pretty heavily ML/something, with Anarchists in a lagging second place followed by everyone else. I'm going to be honest I don't even know what Trotskyies thinking even entails beyond strong disagreements about how Lenin and Stalin handled the early years of the USSR and a lot of stereotypes about Newspapers. We say we're non-sectarian but in practice the ML slant is really strong. I hope we can keep things open. We have to do better than the 20th century did.
So how did you guys fall out with the chapo podcast when you guys were formed as their discussion forum? Did they go liberal? I don't listen to podcasts so I don't know what's going on with your side of the left.
By the time the subreddit was banned, it had already outgrown the podcast and become a general watering hole for leftist shitposting on Reddit. A lot of the cultural references and bits survived. The relationship between the subreddit and the podcast was always tenuous. They shittalked the subreddit a lot, the subreddit shittalked them a lot, but there was never really a split on ideological grounds.
I feel like I got caught up in this without knowing it was a bigger thing and just getting increasingly upset at getting banned over pretexts
they and the old sub were a gateway leftwards for a lot of people but people soured on them when they kept moving left but the pod didn't. personally, I've never been able to listen to a whole episode. it's just not my cup of tea.
A lot of people either forgot or didn’t realize in the first place that CTH was and still is an independent podcast primarily built on armchair media criticism. Nothing wrong with that in itself, but I saw a lot of people projecting onto it like it was supposed to be deeper or more activist than it was. The friction between the subreddit and the pod seemed to be a lot about how the armchair media criticism podcast run by unemployable Twitter posters wasn’t doing more for the cause.
I say the above with affection for all involved. I like the podcast, and I like the community that sprung up around it and has largely moved past it.
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