Someone had a good idea last week about making a kindness post.
Fundamentally, it is important to build communities and institutions through affirming actions and efforts. A forum devoted solely to bitching and complaining will never work, and could potentially toxify (though in our case I doubt it would be too bad because you all are capable of self-regulating).
That being said, I like the idea of making one post every week that is specifically devoted to, not simply good news, but good affirmations to each other.
Please post positive things in this particular thread. Also, feel free to ping other users with compliments, kindness, and affirmations.
Think of it as a morale building exercise!
Sounds great. I think we get too entrapped in hate fucking here. Don't get me wrong, it's fun in a dark way, but often times it's boring in its entirely predictable nature.
Hell, I've been itching to create a topic about US economics and dark days ahead, but was a bit too lazy. Maybe I'll get to it eventually.
The great thing about this forum is that nobody's policing content. Don't worry about ideas -- execute. It'll stick if it vibes and timing is right; if not, no big harm.
Yeah I've had a post on "alternate communication methods" sitting in the back of my mind for some time as well. I think a great way to gatekeep communities is to use old tech that wasn't "normie-friendly" like IRC, newsgroups, and BBS's. But I haven't yet put anything to paper.
Some anons on /pol/ for a time tried setting up "Right Wing Dev Squad" threads to try to start building up distributed software infrastructure, which I thought was a great idea that unfortunately didn't go anywhere.
I've been kicking around some ideas involving things like BBS's and such, too, just on a pretty small scale. Maybe one of us will get some solid ideas down and we can compare notes.