Leftypol, afaik, has always been a glowop, and the government seem intent on crushing its support of Z and Gaza. Currently, the level of NAFO attack is increasingly high, and with an appropriate level of human, automated, and semi-automated attack, we could go under, especially since mods want it to collapse. How would you feel about an evac? I understand you do need to filter as Leftypol is very loosely moderated. And do you have plans if government troll farms go after you as well?

    • farmer_of_song@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      13·
      2 months ago

      Transpeople should be socially accepted and supported.

      Settlers; any suggestion for a particular reading strategy? As a soon-to-be-former Leftypoler, I’m way too familiar with a pessimistic view to history, so the notion of Americans dehumanizing, decimating， and displacing Amerindians is a bit trite. What elements should I focus on to expand my understanding? The psychology of colonialism, like the self-defense mechanisms settlers used to consider themselves human despite the violence they inflicted on other human beings? The seguing of violence: how by dehumanizing and committing atrocities on others, the inhibitions against violence on one’s own ingroup was reduced? The anatomy of moderate defeat: how humanists tried and failed to stem the tide of their less humane countrymen, and were ostracized in turn for opposing “progress”?

      Ah:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlers:_The_Mythology_of_the_White_Proletariat

      Looks way more interesting (IIRC I had confused it for some other history of American colonization), and the questions I have for reading it (i.e, psychology and sociology of a labor aristocracy) are better.

      Edit 2:

      This is very, very good.

      https://readsettlers.org/ch1.html

      Ah, I’ll keep my reading to myself, was aiming to lurk anyways.

        • farmer_of_song@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          I’m up to Chapter 4, after having preread Chapter 14 (last chapter).

          TBH, honestly, it sounds like the cultural DNA of the United States is extremely diseased (being based on bourgeois settlers living off enslaved Africans on land expropriated from Amerindians in a most brutal fashion, and having voted, similar to the current Israelis, for a monster). I wonder if having done a decent course in Marxist American studies would have saved the Soviet leadership from attempting to negotiate with the Americans, and when that failed, to have the Soviets commit suicide in an attempt to bring peace.

          I mean, I’m mildly familiar with other histories of demographic expansion, but you can draw a straight line from the genocide of Amerindians to modern American imperialism. Some things never change.

    • ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
      10·
      2 months ago

      I would honestly only be ok with this personally if leftypol evacced the entry procsess was tightened up and questions about things like intersectionality, trans comrades and opinions on places like cuba, china,

      I’d also ask how they feel about womens rights, child sexual material and engaging in a website that often has CSAM material on its front page for an entire day, as a regular occurance and still choosing to use that website every single day to post while the admins fail to even implement basic moderation on new posts, such as limiting image posting to IP’s with X amount of posts to slow down botters long enough that mods can ban them.

      Thats why I had a hard blanket ‘fuck off’ below to further explain myself.

      Think about it, why would you ever tolerate this? The ego of the admins, to keep up there little vanity project while CSAM spammers plaster it front page and then just let the dustbin fire burn every day. If you cant stop this, you shouldnt be running a website. It ruins communists reputations so much that I genuinally believe the entire thing is an op.

      Thats not even mentioning the unironic nazbol threads, anyone associating with it isnt worth this place.

        • ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
          81·
          2 months ago

          leftypol is a derrative of 8pol, its users who fled that website for not being leftist.

          that website also had actual tolerated CSAM on it, which should tell you the admins at one point previouslly didnt care the website they used every day and moderated had CSAM hosted on there own website.

      • farmer_of_song@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
        31·
        2 months ago

        Leftypol and CSAM is more an issue of Leftypol being immersed in chan culture, where dumping CSAM is a common troll, and the fact that Leftypol’s moderation staff is rarely active. Not only can CSAM exist for way too long, anti-semitic material can take hours before moderation responds.

        And yeah, the pro-NATO posters doing the raid had moderator support, so to me, it’s support for your hypothesis that the thing is a government honeytrap.

        • comfy@lemmy.ml
          3·
          2 months ago

          Leftypol and CSAM is more an issue of Leftypol being immersed in chan culture, where dumping CSAM is a common troll

          This is not the reason. Most CSAM on imageboards (as with any open forum or comment section) is commercial advertising. Someone did a decent write-up here. [warning: post is on an imageboard thread, a couple of the replies later are edgy or dumb racist crap]

          Like the thread says, even in raids it’s a very, very rare tactic.

          You are right about the moderation being slow to respond, as well as failing to put in automated defenses like leftychan and nuclear change.

          • ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
            5·
            2 months ago

            This is not the reason. Most CSAM on imageboards (as with any open forum or comment section) is commercial advertising. Someone did a decent write-up here. [warning: post is on an imageboard thread, a couple of the replies later are edgy or dumb racist crap]

            I agree that the actual CSAM on leftpol is spammers trying to advertise or hurt the site, however they also tolerate loli porn and have historic roots to 8chan. The lax moderation tells me its more likely on purpose given the roots of the admin staff and the fact that people bring this up, all the time to the admins publically, they ignore it.

            • comfy@lemmy.ml
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              2 months ago

              however they also tolerate loli porn

              Ah, I wasn’t even thinking about non-photo stuff. I don’t know enough so I’ll take your word on that one. They would definitely do their best to delete the photo stuff, because it’s capitalist advertsiting, spam, disgusting to the point users would leave the site and also grounds for being reported to their server host. But I can’t say I would be surprised whichever way they approached cartoon stuff, and I think it’s reasonable to bring up ‘chan culture’ there.

              I don’t think the historical roots to 8chan are particularly relevant to this issue, because looking at 8/leftypol/ on the wayback archive, they explicitly had an anti-loli rule. It was just one board at the time rather than the collection it is now, so 8chan’s notorious freeze peach US Libertarian liberalism didn’t apply to /leftypol/ then.

              • ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
                4·
                2 months ago

                I don’t think the historical roots to 8chan are particularly relevant to this issue, because looking at 8/leftypol/ on the wayback archive, they explicitly had an anti-loli rule. It was just one board at the time rather than the collection it is now, so 8chan’s notorious freeze peach US Libertarian liberalism didn’t apply to /leftypol/ then.

                I find that hard to argue, sharing a board with a website hosting actual CSAM (as well as q-anon shit and conspiracy up the ass) is a terrible look

                • comfy@lemmy.ml
                  31·
                  2 months ago

                  8ch was the reddit of imageboards in more ways than one; reddit infamously hosted /r/jailbait and other horrible subreddits for many years. Socialist subreddits (incl. those which were historical roots of lemmygrad.ml) weren’t really affected by reddit also having CSAM, fascist, etc. boards because one can completely ignore they exist elsewhere on the site. The same was how /leftypol/ was. And in both cases, the community was on a crappy site because it’s free hosting, there’s no implied common values.

    • farmer_of_song@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      bloodgasm is actually supporting the NAFO guys trying to brigade “revolutionary defeatism” and “anti-campism”. That should explain all you need to know about why people might consider migrating.

    • comfy@lemmy.ml
      5·
      2 months ago

      Fuck, imagine weirdos like […] thing noticer coming to lemmygrad

      Old users here might remember Wolfballs so it’s not too hard to imagine. There have been fixated shock image spammers on Lemmy. Although it’s much better now that most federated instances aren’t open sign-up like the were then, where they would just register on any open instance to ban evade on demand.

  • poo_22@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    2 months ago

    Leftychan.net exists exactly because the mod team on .org cannot be worked with. It’s run democratically and most people that go there agree it’s better than leftypol.

    • comfy@lemmy.ml
      5·
      2 months ago

      Looking at the leftypol.org moderation thread quickly, it… leaves an impression. There’s some real wannabe-cop shit going on.

      It looks like part of the reason for the understaffing is that after four years, they finally banned an openly abusive moderator. Then other mods just kept using that name/account to continue moderating under a false name. So they currently have mods trying to justify gaslighting the userbase with a zombie account. Then there’s a long essay one of them made when they left a year ago, which I just don’t have time to look at today.

      On the wiki and booru, it looks like the other English-language socialist imageboards are:

      • leftychan : a split from mods who disagreed, run democratically
      • GETchan : completely independent site (not a left-/pol/ offshoot) with much politically-stricter moderation hosting a casual chat lounge board and a flag-collecting international board. Now I see the name, I remember their YouTube channel filled with great music collections including original archivism.
      • Nuclear Change : a board with a knack for running online projects rather than generic chatting, also run democratically
    • farmer_of_song@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Sounds like the best migration option, since the culture fits. But I think the NAFO raiders are getting countered and essentially ended up as toys.

      The only good thing about Leftypol, tbh, is the very high traffic volume.

    • farmer_of_song@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      Warning: link filled with very offensive material (regarding Gaza)

      https://leftychan.net/b/res/154243.html

      What’s the use of leftychan if it’s just as bad as leftypol?

      Sigh, and apparently a NAFO troll recently killed himself, ex-infantry (not sure if he had MOS changed to psyops afterwards). The rumor was that he was sexually accosting an underage girl, got reported, and well…

      But I can’t find any substantiation or investigation of the rumor, and I can’t ask on Leftypol because it’s no longer under friendly control (now we’re getting people calling materialist dialectics stupid).

      Would have been a fun scoop though if he was still working professionally, had his designation changed to psyops, AND was sexually harassing minors.