we’ve got a couple regulars posting on !chronicillness@lemmy.world so we get atleast two posts a week nearly no matter what which is cool.
I don’t think we need to force ourselves to be more active than that. Threads that get big on our community attract a lot of non-disabled people who say discriminatory stuff and it becomes a moderation headache.
The comm was intended as a support group but sometimes becomes a sort of debate group when non-disabled people try to share their “views” on our disabilities. So those big threads may not really be serving their purpose.
That is the most annoying thing, when people crash into spaces and say horrible things and then try to force you to accept it and make you look like the bad guy by saying “they will not listen to differing views, it’s an echo chamber!”
I am open to differing views but in views like “the Nazis were bad” or “2+2=4” it should be an echo chamber of consensus… you should not have to accept the “differing view” of “you all got your chronic illnesses through being horrible people, and if you are an angel now, well actually no I’ll just make up stuff to prove why you deserve it.” There are legitimate but uncomfortable differing views, and there is cruel insanity trying to force someone acting in good faith to accept the view under usual good-faith principles for non-insane views.
I am glad you at least have some kind of support group going on.
we’ve got a couple regulars posting on !chronicillness@lemmy.world so we get atleast two posts a week nearly no matter what which is cool.
I don’t think we need to force ourselves to be more active than that. Threads that get big on our community attract a lot of non-disabled people who say discriminatory stuff and it becomes a moderation headache.
The comm was intended as a support group but sometimes becomes a sort of debate group when non-disabled people try to share their “views” on our disabilities. So those big threads may not really be serving their purpose.
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de is really carrying it with their weekly threads.
That is the most annoying thing, when people crash into spaces and say horrible things and then try to force you to accept it and make you look like the bad guy by saying “they will not listen to differing views, it’s an echo chamber!”
I am open to differing views but in views like “the Nazis were bad” or “2+2=4” it should be an echo chamber of consensus… you should not have to accept the “differing view” of “you all got your chronic illnesses through being horrible people, and if you are an angel now, well actually no I’ll just make up stuff to prove why you deserve it.” There are legitimate but uncomfortable differing views, and there is cruel insanity trying to force someone acting in good faith to accept the view under usual good-faith principles for non-insane views.
I am glad you at least have some kind of support group going on.