I know it was originally a spin off of the chapotraphouse subreddit but I don’t know much else. Is it it still affiliated with the podcast? How has it grown etc? Why was the subreddit closed etc.
Give me the lore, baby
When the subreddit was quarantined, a couple diaspora communities were started in anticipation of a ban. One being the discord server, the other was this lemmy instance crafted up.
There’s basically no affiliation aside from the origin story of coming from a sub named for the podcast.
The sub was closed over “violent threats”, basically the members would not stop saying that john brown was right to kill slave owners and that slave owners should be killed. Many think that the sub was banned mostly to keep things equal when the_donald was banned. I think it was a combination of fash reddit admins taking offense to violence against slave owners, and using the_donald banning as an opportunity to say “look we hate all extremism”.
Edit: lmao how did i get it so wrong, I’ve been here since the first days and I’ve totally forgotten the details of how it went down, and I was fuckin addicted to refreshing /r/cth.
The admins were also acting like “slaveowners” was a euphemism for rich people in general, in order to make their whining sound more acceptable
Negative affiliation IIRC, one of the guys wasn’t happy that the sub had almost nothing to do with the podcast and that they kept getting emails from chuds asking to be unbanned.
