Submitted by ziq in meta (edited )

  1. Pay attention to the top-voted content posted on the forums you're posting to and try to maintain each forum's voice as much as possible. For example, posts to f/migrants always promote the perspective of migrants, and not those opposed to migration. Posts to f/trans celebrate the trans experience: it's not a forum to post a stream of horrible news stories about violence against trans people.

  2. None of the big forums on raddle should be conventional. Every featured forum (forums that display on the front page by default) should maintain some kind of anti-authoritarian, radical, queer or counter-culture perspective. Remember that what you choose to post is reflective of Raddle as a whole. We flout the status quo at every turn. Raddle is a celebration of wild, weird, surreal, vibrant, free, beautiful things.

  3. If you're white, a man, an American, cishet, etc: Always be conscious to not center yourself at the expense of non-white, non-man, non-American, non-cishet perspectives and experiences. It's important that raddle continues to be a diverse international space that gives voice to the disenfranchised, the marginalized, the exploited and not become yet another venue for middle class white American Democrats to complain about the antics of middle class white American Republicans. If there's more than 1 post on the front page about American party politics, the site is going in the wrong direction.

  4. Remember that Raddle is a small site and can thus be very easily dominated by just a couple of contributors if they post too ardently. If you notice your contributions are monopolizing the front page, try to slow down and be more selective about what you choose to share.

  5. If contributions are gathering down-votes, that's an indication that they're breaking with the content raddle's built-in audience comes here to consume. Always be respectful of the needs of the existing userbase that has developed over 6 years and listen to them when they push back against certain content that doesn't vibe with the site's well-established identity. If you're new, try to get a sense for the site and its audience before you contribute too many links.

  6. Take a long hard look at the most popular memes on each meme forum. Notice the strong nihilistic bent on f/totaldesertion. The sardonic, yet unpretentious and self-effacing undertones on f/memer. The upending of traditional leftist and liberal narratives that permeate the site. The rejection of anything conventional. Memes promoting tired party politics, whiteness or settler narratives will likely get get the contributors laughed out of the room. If your contribution doesn't fit into one of the existing forums, make a new forum that can more reflect your own sensibilities.

  7. Remember to have fun. The site shouldn't ever become a non-stop doom-scroll. Be light-hearted, casual, make jokes, talk about the cool stuff you did today, don't take an Internet forum too seriously.

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kano wrote

Thanks for writing this. I have been annoyed with wack memes and a lot usa stuff posted recently. One of things I really appreciate about this site is that for the most part it isn't drowning in USA party politics crap.

Have been on this site for years now, but am posting a lot in the recent times. Please also let me know if I'm taking too much space.

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ziq OP wrote

a good american meme: death to amerikkka

a bad american meme: poor innocent american citizens are being oppressed by evil republicans that won't give them free dental care

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kin wrote

One thing that I've learned to do is to block users and hide forums that are disrupting my feed on Raddle. I only bother when comes to some stuff that I can moderate accordingly

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kano wrote (edited )

Have thought about it, didn't want too/ was hoping for a discussion about this topic, as the people who I feel are most guilty of this also post worthwhile stuff too.

Edit: Also I think this relates to what /u/ziq said about how what we post here reflects on raddle as a whole. I don't want that the site becomes full of American stuff or wack lefty or liberal memes. This is what I consider to be a radical anti authoritarian space, and I would hope that someone who isn't logged in visits the site and can see that.

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kin wrote

Yeah I totally agree with this.

Maybe my comment was saying my personal way to cope. In the past we had discussions whether the migration of huge communities (Chapo trap house and recently the empress piracy cult) over raddle made sense and I understand the desire for site growing but I guess we adopted a kind of consensus toward some core values that many are not willing to change with site growing as a reddit alternative.

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veuzi wrote (edited )

the empress piracy cult

This is maybe unrelated but I'm really glad people looked into EMPRESS when she showed up here, because we've dodged a high-caliber bullet. She and her subreddit got banned very shortly aftewards, so she ran off to Telegram, stirred up even more drama and seems to now have lost a good chunk of her followers.

She released her highly anticipated crack of the wizard game a few days ago and you can bet she put a fully mask-off transphobic rant in the NFO (which is ironic considering the controversy around that game and the amount of people who would rather pirate it than buy it). Point is, I think the only ones left in her "community" who engage with her BS beyond just downloading her cracks would probably be equally as unsavory types, at the very least.

On a funnier note: EMPRESS also tried to establish a presence on Lemmy, but not even those tankies wanted her lol

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rattledlove1139 wrote

Funny thing is i remember, that account post "haha i trolled you all i am not empress" and rub in faces how real empress would never be here before ban
But like
No one wanted that person here whether or not real empress. Either troll just totally waste time or maybe actually empress who decide to pretend like troll because so butthurt no one want around. Either one funny
(i had not know about empress before this so not sure which more likely. either way i am glad gone)

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veuzi wrote

I didn't see that "haha I troled u" post before it got nuked, but I am still pretty certain that it was the real deal. If it was a troll, then they must've been a damn good one, because they mimicked her mannerisms perfectly. Even backpedalling by pretending to be a troll is a very typical EMPRESS thing to do.

I also know for a fact that she tried to get her community onto Lemmy after the reddit ban because I saw her complain about Lemmy banning her aswell in her Telegram. It seems reasonable to me that she was scouting out a place to migrate from reddit ahead of time because she was planning to reignite the FitGirl drama again to coincide with the HogLeg crack release, and could see the reddit ban coming as a result of that.

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bergra wrote

Lemmy

Link please.

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kano wrote

I totally understood it as it being your personal way to cope. I also hid the chapotraphouse forum but as far as I recall it was never featured.

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ziq OP wrote

Your content is all on-message btw.

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subrosa wrote

Good stuff. I was thinking maybe we should have occasional introductions/welcoming threads in the lobby again. I'm approaching this site as though lastfutures, bloodrose, Styx, etc. were still around. Not sure where raddle is at right now. The username changes are not helping :P

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ziq OP wrote (edited )

i'd post more but i'd rather just play mega drive rom hacks on my crt

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kin wrote

The username changes are not helping :P

Sorry lol

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subrosa wrote

monday and tuesday get my blessings, BUT THAT'S IT

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rattledlove1139 wrote

yes lately feel like seeing more posts that is less for discussion and more either news or memes, which some is OK because not everything need big discussion, but some just really not understand and feel on those things is especially hard ask for help.
Like really frustrate when someone share news article that have video and video not even caption right because then i can not understand that part and sometimes video say different or more details from article!! i know that is not something can control when just share but would be nice if say that in warning before share, just check if captions make sense. Accessibility important too

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kano wrote

Hey also I feel like it would be fair enough if you saw a article that you dont understand if you asked for a summary, or just to ask questions about what you don't understand, maybe it also helps foster discussion.

And will try to keep it in mind about the videos with captions

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rattledlove1139 wrote

True, i guess just feel like awkward position to be in, i am used to people who ask "Why come here then" or just get angry
Thank you :)

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kano wrote (edited )

I hope this is the kind of space where that won't happen to you. I feel like I kind of get it maybe, I'm the only person in my house who doesn't speak the language natively, and it's hard for me to interrupt and ask for explanations because I don't want to be a bother. But somehow I think it's also good to confront them all with the reality that not everyone in the group does and they also need to handle this in an appropriate way.

So I think you should be able ask for what clarifications you want and that it wouldn't harm people here to find a way to handle this type of thing.

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ziq OP wrote

suggestions for additions or alterations welcome

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ArmyOfNone wrote (edited )

1- Votes aren't very significant as far as anyone can create several user accounts to up/downvote comments they don't like, or on even less honest grounds. Something I'm not doing btw.

Can't really disagree with the other points, though.

But I would suggest an addition:

"I'd be good to think twice before posting content that promotes mainstream, normative, pop spectacular cultures, especially from the perspective of mass corporate industry media. Which includes stuff like linking directly to Facebook services. Minority culture and views, especially expressing non-normative sensibilities are to be supported in a context where they are being erased through the domination of mainstream media outlets (that now clearly are the corporate social media platforms we all know)

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kin wrote

Good stuff, it could complement the raddle etiquette wiki (if I remember correctly this was a thing not sure).

Mea Culpa: Maybe I am guilty in over posting sometimes, it was bc I don't want the site to appear dead or that I collect stuff that I dump when I have time to engage meaningfully. And maybe some posts were tone deaf regarding the overall state of the forum. And some shit posts are just bored posts, so I wish more people (or mods) would engage in building the space they want to see.

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ziq OP wrote

The post is addressed to the people posting party politics and horrible stale memes that drag the whole site down. When the site is filling up with that stuff, I'd hope it would continue to be heavily countered by users posting rad content to drown out the socdem and ableist hippie stuff.

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kin wrote

I try to do that, like steer the feed back to the raddley stuff.

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fortmis wrote

Love this, well said!

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itsalways1312somewhere wrote

None of the big forums on raddle should be a simple mirror of a similarly named forum on a mainstream site like reddit.

Oopsie

Every featured forum (forums that display on the front page by default) should maintain some kind of anti-authoritarian, radical or counter-culture perspective. Remember that what you choose to post is reflective of Raddle as a whole.

I think trans happiness is counter-culture, I think we got that down.

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ziq OP wrote (edited )

For sure! I should reword point 2. I meant like r/news or r/politics

edit: done

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nattt wrote

Thanks ziq. Raddle definitely seems a lot closer knit than reddit and this post helps give me a better picture of the vibe we're going for here.

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