Can we pool donations to win the auction? When does the auction end?

Reasons to try:

1. We’ll lose people if we lose the domain. This could include people who are currently receiving mutual aid from us, or who might have planned to in the future. It could also include people who rely on this site to maintain their mental health and sense of community. Not everyone will know where to find the new domain. The chapo chat URL is old lore that newbies won’t know, and the official mastadon is little-known. We could lose a lot of people.
2. Anyone touching grass now who tries to access hexbear later could get doxxed by the new owner. If I understand correctly, the login attempt could link their IP to their password, post history, and recovery email if they have one. If so, this could be pretty be dangerous for vulnerable users here. If the information gets posted to a public database, this could lead to some of those people getting hacked, stolen from, harassed, fired, or worse.

“I should just be killed a little bit”

We might not need to. I’ve seen multiple upvoted comments on the sub calling the mods feds.

*This is the thread I looked in https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/1i79k8z/x_meta_and_ccpaffiliated_content_is_no_longer/

is this information being posted anywhere that antiwork users can see it?

If they hate algospeak, they should ban youtube too.

(algospeak is using weird puns and euphamisms to get around word filters)

I hate to think what else this pig has done. Stay safe out there.

I agree that you don’t need the LTV to argue that we are exploited. You just need a simple moral argument, “my limited time on earth should not be 1000x less valuable than your limited time on earth.”

But I also think that if we are Marxists we should be able to articulate and defend some form of Marxism, especially if it comes up organically in conversation. If we can’t do that, we look like cranks.

that’s all good, but not directly relevant to the kind of conversation I’m thinking of. Suppose people are already talking about “what communists think about economics.” For example, maybe someone says, “I’ve heard that communists don’t believe in supply and demand? is that true?”

i’m also not trying to convince people who are already entrenched neoliberals. I’m thinking of less-committed people who might read the comments of entrenched neoliberals, and will be easily swayed by them unless they hear an alternative. And I’m thinking of hexbear users who might try to argue with neoliberals out in the wild. As communists we need to be able to communicate in a variety of contexts, including when people start talking about economics. Here on hexbear we can help each other do that. Hexbears carry rhetoric from this site out into the world, so with that in mind we should try to come up with some good rhetoric here.

You might be picturing something slightly simpler than I had in mind. My intended audience is lay people who are interested in economics. “Economics” is one avenue of attack against Marxism as a body of thought. Because Marxist economics is not the standard academic position, we are vulnerable to being accused of “not understanding economics.” If we want to defend against this, we should learn to articulate our position in clear, simple, concrete language, simple enough that people think, “How could that possibly be wrong?” This forces liberals to contend with the arguments instead of brushing them aside, and most liberals are not capable of this.

I want to leave it open. Someone might argue that the labor cost is itself determined by supply and demand, for example.

*Basically, I don’t know what lines of argument I should expect to see, so I want to keep the prompt open-ended.

The LTV says that socially necessary labor time largely determines the equilibrium about which prices fluctuate, while supply and demand contribute to the fluctuation

That would be cute, you should give it a shot!

how much of this is just the government preferring TikTok over xiaohongshu/LRB/rednote?

Wouldn’t it look bad if we banned our own ambassador account?

have discussions about the future of hexbear or possible changes on hexbear, not matrix

This would be more democratic, which is good, but could lead to struggle sessions erupting in those threads if we’re not careful. I think it could work if we enforced strict conduct rules in meta discussion threads, like the “no fighting with other users” rule in this current thread we’re in.

This is a great idea.

If it’s a @bureaucrat-type account, though, it needs accountability. There needs to be a record of who wrote what as that account.

Just some musing: I also think the tone should not be too stiff or formal. It should feel like a human being behind the account. We aim for a queer commie dive bar vibe here, and the ambassador(s) should represent that too. The tone should be knowledgeable but not self-important. This also helps undermine the stereotype of communists as dogmatic fanatics.

Schlaaang Super Seat in real life

https://youtu.be/T0StyKPJrNY

Some thinktank did put out a whitepaper about how to control the narrative in the fediverse

*I don’t seem to have it bookmarked

Add me please fam