Just wanted to get this thought out there. Space on the internet is infinite, and changing to a new domain is easy and cheap. Let the people who have poisoned their brains with anti tankie rhetoric pay the DNS landlord hundreds of dollars for the privilege of setting up a redirect to NATO’s website or whatever, our money and effort is better spent on literally anything else.
If anyone actually drops money on it I suggest we all collectively make fun of them for wasting money
Well, yeah
Imagine thinking you’re sticking it to us by paying some domain registrar for a name we changed because Chapo.Chat didn’t actually reflect our beliefs
I never understood this. The people on that podcast never did anything problematic and I’d even go as far to say that we lost hundreds of thousands of people regularly exposed to /r/chapotraphouse when it switched to this site + all the drama with admins and mods leaving. I just watched from the side like I’ve done my entire life lol
It was certainly by no means revolutionary but I’m willing to say it had potential as a leftist hub and to introduce people to non-state department mandated talking points
Damn writing this all out, I’m just seeing how a lot of these failures can be chalked up to infighting in one way or another. Hate to say it but this is why the right is so strong
Well, the main thing that happened was that we wanted to make a safe place for trans users
The early days were pretty wackadoo when it came down to dealing with transphobia, lots of trans users were getting harassed and a lot of it was going on with long-time users from r/cth
Had to put our foot down, distance ourselves from those old days
Not to mention, the right only has a strong presence because libs cower before them
Every time they start getting power, they start eating their own
Just have to look at all the various Nazi and KKK splinter groups and how they all try to kill each other over the most minute gibberish
Idk, the whole hexbear versus chacha thing never really felt like a “We need this to protect trans users” thing. Or at the very least, it never came across that way to me.