I am game to run whatever you guys want to play.
I have experience playing 20xx, Troika, FU, Whitebox and a variety of other systems.
I am also willing to try any rules light system (as it is best for play by post, especially here on Lemmy).
Any genre as well, I’ll go with the group consensus. Give me suggestions and we’ll see where we end up. Let’s get our game ooooonnnnn! ;D
I wonder how much more popular this community would be if it wasn’t hosted on .ml. It’s unfortunate, but many people are refusing to participate in .ml communities these days.
Sad to hear the last attempt fizzled out, I really love this community and this initiative.
Same thought, yep.
Honestly, I’m unapologetically an .ml user, if someone doesn’t want to participate because it’s an .ml community I’d rather not engage with them anways. What’s unfortunate is that us .ml users are on the recieving end of so much hate and derision. I’m frankly tired of it.
I’m not a fundamentalist on the issue, I subscribe to !crows@lemmy.ml and !dota2@lemmy.ml and comment there on occasion, and have never had any problems. Most .ml users I’ve interacted with have been perfectly pleasant and normal.
That being said, creating an account somewhere else is absolutely trivial, as is moving over all your subscriptions, settings and saved posts. Several apps have this functionality built in, even. Having your account on any given instance broadly means you’re aligning yourself with and approve of its admins and moderation policy - in fact, that’s the whole point of the Fediverse system of instances. Given all of that, I wouldn’t call it “unfortunate” that normal .ml users are getting collateral damage from the actions of the admins and mods. You’re more or less explicitly approving of the political stance of .ml. Even if that political stance is one you agree with, it’s easy to see how many people don’t. Combine that with a very aggressive moderation policy and it’s not hard to see why many people are turned off.
I understand all of that and I believe the backlash is unwarranted. I do ascribe to the mod’s political stance as I am a Marxist myself. I believe that due to decades of misinformation the general public is still scared of the communist ‘bogeyman’. I get why people don’t associate with .ml and I am fine with it. I can disagree with plenty of people politically and get along with them just fine. My problem is the fact that a majority of users can’t even coherently tell me why it is they are against Marxist views or they have a highly distorted idea of what constitutes Marxist/Communist thinking and then they immediately shutdown the dialogue and paint me (and all .ml users) with this broad brush of imaginary ideas of what we stand for. Like I said, I’m fine with it. If other people don’t even want to try and understand different views to bridge the divide and actually engage in honest discussion, I have nothing to say to them anyways. If your preconcieved notions trump anything I could say, then their mind is already made up and I’m alright with disengaging from those that have closed their minds off to alternate views than their own.
Most people’s problem isn’t with the ideology itself but the moderation policy and the censorship that takes place. What I hear most from people is outrage over mods/admins deleting criticism of Russia/China/North Korea. Or comments saying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was unlawful getting deleted. I think stuff like that is what people get upset about more than Marxism itself.
I’ve seen threads as such, and the issue is a person (from outside .ml) will take a particular position, argue that point (i.e. China is an authoritarian hell-hole) and then refuse to listen to any counterpoint to the contrary. The mods only step in after these threads are several dozen responses deep and the non-ml user basically plugs their ears and refuses to listen to any other viewpoint but their own. I’ve seen this time, after time, after time again. The mods are perfectly fine with people’s criticisms, it’s when you have users whose sole mission is to tell us how wrong we are and how depraved we are for thinking otherwise accompanied with a litany of slurs, that the mods take action. Hell, if anything the mods let them rant and rave for too long at times before stepping in.
Believe me, I really wish that was true. If it was, we wouldn’t have stuff like !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works I think. Which for the record: I don’t like that community much as I think the ongoing war on .ml/hexbear/grad creates a lot of division and hate around here.
But even then, just browsing some recent posts there I find stuff like this modlog of a very confusing deletion of a very reasonable comment about Iran: https://photon.lemmy.world/modlog?user=1651764&community=13
Oh, I’ve seen that community and, personally, I think it’s bullshit. But that’s me.
That’s precisely it. They’re so concerned with us and it’s sowing unecessary discord. People can disagree with us all they want but to continually drum up hate towards us is just plain childish.
See, I get why that was modded. Why precisely shouldn’t Iran (or any damn country for that matter) be able to build nukes? Why is the US and a select few the only ones allowed to? What gives the US the authority over a nation’s self determination? That’s besides the point too, as many sources (even many mainstream western ones) indicated there was no evidence Iran was building nuclear weapons, the nuclear program was explicitly for energy infrastructure, which makes the US actions even more egregious. I don’t see how the US can play world police when a particular nation is implementing it’s own policies, unless they are actively attacking another soverign nation (and then there would be a whole other set of procedures for engaging in conflict with such a nation) then what business is it of the US to take action against them?
