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The daily megathreads on the old cth sub during the George Floyd protests were amazing. Like hundreds of comments every night, maybe even a couple thousand if my memory serves me correct. Not unlike the news mega when really big news happens.

I would encourage newer users to read through @JoeySteel@hexbear.net ’s comments and posts, some real bangers in there. Joey was eventually banned for sectarianism back when we used to have actual anarchists and other tendencies around here.

It’s hard to over-emphasize just how much getting this whole website off the ground was on the shoulders of one admin (Beatnik). I hope they are still around but they put in so much work. And while I definitely do not want to open any wounds over TC69, I think the reason so many of us were thrilled she was back was she so crucial in developing a truly trans-inclusive site (even if we still have problems to work on). This site was bleeding trans users who were making regular posts about how this site sucks for trans users. TC69 stepped in and bullied this site into being better.

Speaking of which, I think there’s a finer detail missed when we talk about the “pronoun struggle session”. There were two stages. The first stage was when the site first introduced pronoun tags. My recollection is that was broadly very popular and there weren’t any issues there (I am cis though, maybe I missed some arguing over it?). I think a few days after that, there was an announcement that pronoun tags were mandatory. THAT correct take caused a big struggle session over people who complained about “muh opsec” and felt pronouns shouldn’t be required. Those folks all left or got banned.