Hi all. Welcome to the Lemmy c/Portland.
I’ve been on federated sites for awhile, and tried to mod this community awhile back, but adoption had been slow and I let it sit.
As such, it’s available for us to make it whatever you want. Please make sure to follow the lemmy.ml rules.
- No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/code_of_conduct.html
- Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.
- No porn.
- No Ads / Spamming.
I also humbly request we attempt to not fall into some of the issues with r/Portland where it devolves into a crime blog/NextDoor-like space or become a platform for some of the local PACs to push their agendas (on any side).
Lets just be neighborly and if we disagree, then we’ll work it out. If the place takes off, then we’ll work together to codify more custom ground rules for discussion.
With that said, howdy neighbors.
My hope is that this comm can grow to represent a “united left” faction of online Portland communities, now that people are trickling in.
It sucks that on r/Portland I almost always see left-of-liberal viewpoints in response to center-right comments that are so prominent there. It would be nice to have a place where constructive discussion can be had and opinions can be refined, since I know in real life such views are fairly well represented among our neighbors.
I hope that our mod @polymerwitch@lemmy.ml is sympathetic to cultivating this sort of space. At minimum they recognize here in this post the crimeblogging happening on the subreddit which is a significant issue.
My politics don’t really fit in a tidy box, and I’m not really interested in wielding my personal ideology to craft this space (beyond rejecting hate). As we figure out what this place will be I hope we can work together to make it a space for those that use it. As we need more mods and new perspectives we should add those as well.
For transparency though, I am of course biased (like everyone). I was born and raised in Portland. I’m a union member. I’m middle aged. I’m socially and fiscally far-left, but I’m also a bit of an individualist who loves freedom and guns. So, if I start wielding power to enforce those ideas (again beyond rejecting hate) then call me out on it.