No, seriously! If we want communist spaces on lemmygrad to grow, shouldn’t the communities engage in regular discussions threads on marxist theory and contemporary politics that will invite/attract users to the communities and help them clear their doubts and misunderstandings about different schools of Marxism? Even a weekly/ bi-weekly bookclub will be good.
There was one, I believe it stalled out due to lack of participation. Over on Hexbear we have a mostly stalled-out Capital reading thread that just started volume 3 (I’m catching up from the last third of volume 2) and a currently very successful reading thread centering imperialism, currently mid-way through Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.
Perhaps it might be worth revisiting Grad’s reading group now that there’s an influx from the Deprogram.
At a personal level, I do share this intro ML reading list I made over on Lemmy.ml, but there’s no reading thread for it, it’s just my own thing.
That’s great! I think we should have regular study threads on every Communist/ML communities on lemmygrad.
One thing about Lemmy is that instances are more like subreddits, and communities are more like hashtags. Having one or two study threads per week is about the max an instance can realistically field while maintaining active discussion.
The chapotraphouse community on hexbear.net is like a proper subreddit. But on a second thought, it is kinda solo carrying the server. We need to strengthen lemmygrad by making the user base in multiple communities bigger and more active.
CTH is more like a general-purpose comm on Hexbear, the podcast isn’t really discussed much, plus the megathreads are where a lot of the activity is. Since instances are relatively small, a lot of people scroll by new or active, meaning comms can go months without a post yet gain a ton of traction. It’s like a sorting bucket more than an active community. For Hexbear, as an example, c/slop is pretty popular, and c/games is a nice community, it all depends on what people want to post.
The way to strengthen Lemmygrad is to use it, posting and commenting. It already does what it needs to do, and since there isn’t a profit-motive, growth isn’t the goal.