Comradeship // Freechat

Very bizarre wrecker behavior ongoing over there from the admin team. It's hard to say what's precisely going on because all the major admins and mods have completely closed ranks against the wider community, preferring to communicate in their own private chat rather than express their positions publicly to their "comrades" in the wider community.

The fact that the newcomer admin, currently LARPing as a wrecker nonce, is now the second top admin on that site means that whatever issue this behavior stems from is likely emanating from the highest site leadership itself, given that the top admin account is an inactive placeholder shell. This is such boring reddit-typical power mod nonsense, right up to the new admin LARPing as some micro e-celeb through their position and the rest of the admins adopting a "us vs. them" mentality against the community, that it's frankly just demoralizing to see it "suddenly" happen to one of the only other leftist spaces on the English internet apart from LG.

The way this incident is spiralling really is showing what personalities are ultimately running the show over there and turns out it's the same power-tripping story as in any subreddit or forum, apparently. You expect, or rather hope, for something different here when we're all supposed to be comrades taking refuge from a wider internet space hostile to our very existence, but the way the new admin is straight up banning people, in one instance a permaban to what was clearly an unserious request made under emotional tension, shows that's apparently not the case. What a waste to treat such a hard-won and painfully built community in this kind of way. It's quite the ironic touch given that the closure of their site's r/SLS comms, which precipitated all this drama, was initially justified under the pretext of reforming the community to uphold more "proper" leftist values and yet the admin leadership, in the span of a mere day, seems to reveal that they're unwilling to walk their own talk.