We linked the albums higher up if you want to go through them. Content warning for literally everything though.
Her trying to scam someone was on MMTC and is not on the albums, because I was the only one that was there. She was using the bot to talk to someone and then gleefully said “maybe I can get them to send me money like I used to do, pretend to be suicidal or sick or something”. I talked her down and later on when confronting her, her defence was “but I didn’t do it in the end”.
So is the GZD discord still awful? I wanted to join but then put off doing the vetting process. But like if these people are tolerated I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t join.
As you might or might not know the GZD discord has been changed a few times. I was on several of the iterations except on the most recent one, but I was never a regular in any. Even with all the vetting, they were still plagued with the same issues that discord servers tend to have. Won’t get into specifics, but it’s almost as if Discord itself attracts a specific kind of people, no matter the ideology.
When the server changes happened, I didn’t get the memo until later on, and there’s this very odd tendency for the old gzd servers to become weird secret clubs unrelated to communism when a new one is made. I unknowingly was in the server modded by the bad actor mentioned above, and I saw the changes happen in real time. They were slow and at first the ML channels were still there, but the vibe started to change. Later on they made a huge “revamp” of the server and removed any ML reference from it. That’s when I learned about what the bad actor did, and I was so creeped out that I deleted my account and even had a sort of “faith crisis” about communism. It was fucked up, I felt deceived. Some time later I joined a new gzd server, if I’m correct it was the second to most recent one. However there were still some very abrasive individuals which I didn’t enjoy talking with. Very weird individuals. I had already stopped frequenting that server when I logged in again recently to see that yep, it had happened again. The server had been converted into a weird cult with no mention of communism. If that’s not suspicious, I don’t know what is. It’s almost as if someone is infiltrating communist spaces as they get big only to break them up later and maybe take some confused people with them.
I probably won’t join a communist discord server again due to the bad experiences I’ve had on them. It’s not a good format for productive conversation, anyway.
We linked the albums higher up if you want to go through them. Content warning for literally everything though.
Her trying to scam someone was on MMTC and is not on the albums, because I was the only one that was there. She was using the bot to talk to someone and then gleefully said “maybe I can get them to send me money like I used to do, pretend to be suicidal or sick or something”. I talked her down and later on when confronting her, her defence was “but I didn’t do it in the end”.
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So is the GZD discord still awful? I wanted to join but then put off doing the vetting process. But like if these people are tolerated I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t join.
This is just my personal experience.
As you might or might not know the GZD discord has been changed a few times. I was on several of the iterations except on the most recent one, but I was never a regular in any. Even with all the vetting, they were still plagued with the same issues that discord servers tend to have. Won’t get into specifics, but it’s almost as if Discord itself attracts a specific kind of people, no matter the ideology.
When the server changes happened, I didn’t get the memo until later on, and there’s this very odd tendency for the old gzd servers to become weird secret clubs unrelated to communism when a new one is made. I unknowingly was in the server modded by the bad actor mentioned above, and I saw the changes happen in real time. They were slow and at first the ML channels were still there, but the vibe started to change. Later on they made a huge “revamp” of the server and removed any ML reference from it. That’s when I learned about what the bad actor did, and I was so creeped out that I deleted my account and even had a sort of “faith crisis” about communism. It was fucked up, I felt deceived. Some time later I joined a new gzd server, if I’m correct it was the second to most recent one. However there were still some very abrasive individuals which I didn’t enjoy talking with. Very weird individuals. I had already stopped frequenting that server when I logged in again recently to see that yep, it had happened again. The server had been converted into a weird cult with no mention of communism. If that’s not suspicious, I don’t know what is. It’s almost as if someone is infiltrating communist spaces as they get big only to break them up later and maybe take some confused people with them.
I probably won’t join a communist discord server again due to the bad experiences I’ve had on them. It’s not a good format for productive conversation, anyway.
I appreciate this write-up, thank you. I’ll stay clear of the Discord then.