/meta/ - Ruthless criticism of all that exists (in leftychan.net)

>>11873
It's all because we don't have a cooking board.

Well, we sped up for a bit towards the end of 2023, but then activity in /b/ seemed to simultaneously fall off. It's honestly kinda weird, OP.

What did we do to get folks over before?

the identity of this site is intrinsically tied to .org. its users have a direct relationship to .org. an analogy would be that it serves as leftypols black market.
if you want more users, create an independent identity that can serve the needs of a broader group of people. unfortunately this requires effort, so it will never happen. touch grass.

>>11877
Most of the posts I see about .org on here nowadays are just saying we talk about them too much, but oddly I don't see them talked about in many other contexts that often anymore.

>>11878
not saying users here are obsessed with .org just that its identity is tied to it, most users here are or were .org users at some point
when i talk about the identity of the site i mean in the context of the historical material causes of its origin and userbase. supposing that it suddenly gets a huge influx of regular users unrelated to .org in any way, it will change the sites identity. so the identity has to evolve either way
furthermore there are structural and societal constraints on the sites userbase potential, see >>11839

I was thinking.
Pay for advertising on "left" leaning 4chan boards like /lit/ and /his/ if possible though not sure 4chan would accept advertising to another imageboard.
Make a deal with r/Stupidpol to get put in the sidebar as a Stupidpol adjacent imageboard. Stupidpol is functionally Reddit Leftypol.
Maybe push leftychan to the Haz/ACP types on Haz's Kick.

>>11880
>Pay for advertising
heh

>>11880
>Maybe push leftychan to the Haz/ACP types on Haz's Kick
I do like this idea though.

https://d15cord.gg/JjD5MDSBzk
Server link to Haz, Hinkle and a bunch of the Infra/Midwestern Marx people hangout. You could try get them to promote the site if anyone cares enough.

Share the site with your orgs, show it to your comrades!

>>11886
what do you mean

>>11885
Firstly, the name leftychan sucks and it's embarrassing to advertise. It sucks that advertizing has to include the url, because leftychan sounds like some Zone-Tan-tier, r34 bait shit that only losers care about. It's unserious. That is my main issue with irl advertizing.
If stickers were made with a tagline like "yeah we know the name sucks" but also some way to indicate that the board is for sharing leftist resources, discussion, and news, that would mostly soothe my anxieties.
Or mods could change the name of the site to something cool

>>11924
>leftychan sounds like some Zone-Tan-tier, r34 bait shit that only losers care about
You're spending too much time on the Internet.

>>11924
Nah.

>>11925
Nah im right, anything with -chan as a suffix sounds like pervert shit

>>11929
You're weird, pal.

The best advertisement is giving the website more polish.

>>11877
This..

Also get rid of the 'lefty' part of the name and give us an identity that isn't "what do you think about X…but leftishly'?

and then just advertise on 4chan

Make a Stupidpol board.
r/Stupidpol is basically the most adjacent popular community to classic Leftypol/Bunker actually continues the vibe of classic leftypol (though we do as well) but has many more users than us. Another thing is Stupidpol is classic leftypol. On 8ch we would rip shitlib idpol, Tumblr, /tttt/ shit all the time, so it would be great to have a board were we can discuss the most shitlib idpol brained zeitgeist of the left.

>>11975
… But we can already do that on /b/.

>>11976
You can, but the point of an actual board would be to attract Stupidpol users here, especially as Stupidpol mods straight up admit they are constantly warned by admins of the board being banned and it's only a matter of time. Would be a good chance to siphon a lot of their users.

>>11991
Maybe try a /stupidpol/ general thread and see if any of them come.

>>11993
why the fuckdo you faggots always concern yourself so much with popularity? Is this a mental illness created by the age of social media and technology?

>>11994
Because there are like 5 active users here now who post once every couple days or so, while more and more of the left gets pushed into insane woke hugboxes like rSocialism and .orge
Having a good pluralistic leftist community that doesn't ban you because a debate is "upsetting" some BPD troon or a butthurt Jannie seethes you dunk on his shit take is honestly needed more than ever.

>>11995
Big deal? Some of the best boards have3 like 5 users. At any rate. I mean you can do whatever but how did that work out for org?

>>11994
I've literally been on small boards and forums since the '00s. Small communities are some of my favorites. What bothers me here is that this site somehow has less activity than any of the other boards I post regularly on, and even some of the really dead ones I barely touch… and all of those are registration only, and at least one of them is a highly insular community which basically functions as a tiny friend group offshoot from a larger site, and it even had a period of heavyhanded purges which reduced its membership a lot.

By contrast, we're a registration-free completely anonymous site which is an heir to a large 8ch board, and a censorship-free alternative to .org. Yet I post news here and can be pretty confident that fewer people see it than if I post on the closed-off forums with only like 10 regulars. That's genuinely baffling to me, and so I'd rather dip our toe in first before advocating for creating any new boards which could dilute the site further.

>>11873
You could try not being a total shithole for schizoid moralists.

>>11999
That's .orge and somehow it's 10000x more popular than here.
It genuinely is just a case that Leftypol though got the official name, while those of us that are ACTUALLY the OG leftypol got stuck with the chan suffix. People know Leftypol but they don't know leftychan.
Honestly we should get some ads on /his/ and /lit/ on 4chan tbh.

>>11873
Why do people expect modern bulletin boards to be real-time chat rooms?

Back in the day of BBS' 2 *posts a month* was considered active. Bulletin boards are for things people find important, not for braindead real-time chat.

>>12025
Because social media turned humans into irl cattle.

>>12025
Man, calling back to BBS?
Come on, dude. I grew up with small webforums and then 4chan, 7chan, and the 8ch precursor to this… and none of those were this slow back then!
There's a difference between expecting an imageboard to be a real-time chatroom and wanting it to be more active… I agree that the long-form discussion is a great advantage of this format, it's easy to find topics and to chime in or check them whenever, which gives us a huge advantage over deliberately un-navigable major social media sites where discussion is a jumbled fucking mess. With that said, I'd like to see this advantage put to more use - it's shameful, to me, that we are losing out to sites like Twitter, Facebook, etc. which actively suppress and censor leftist and anti-imperialist discussion and news. It's easy to understand why this is happening - we don't have the kind of capital they do, they have connections in the political and military state, they collude with eachother, the post-8ch /leftypol/ community has been couped and faced repeated splits - but I think we should at least aspire to do a better job of countering it. Bunkerchan successfully picked up refugees from /leftypol/ when 8ch collapsed - will we be able to do the same when .org collapses?
Will we be able to catch leftist activity from Twitter as the boot comes down? Will they even realize that posting here is an option?