Hi. I wanted to talk about an issue that has been bothering me for a long time and that is the quality of the publications that are being made lately in the Leftsthetics community.

I have a specific problem with the user “Роძэя ΟЬяэяо” who I think has not understood the purpose of that community very well. The description of the community reads as follows:

For propaganda posters, art, influential photos, and anything else that promotes the aesthetics of revolution and the Left.

The problem is that this user does not upload anything that has to do with socialist or Marxist aesthetics. With so many artistic and aesthetic expressions of this movement, I don’t understand how they can use the community to upload memes, which are also in Spanish. They also share famous quotes from great thinkers but again, is out of place in this community. In fact, this user currently moderates the Latino Marxist community and they have not even oriented it towards anything concrete, it is an accumulation of his publications that are completely decontextualised. And always, in all publications, it says “Latino Marxist”, without descriptions or anything, as if it were some kind of branding or an automated bot. It gives a very bad image and worsens the impression of Lemmygrad.

I don’t want to promote hatred towards this user because I doubt their intentions are evil, but I think this community has a lot of potential and right now it is full of out-of-context posts and memes. For that we already have other communities with more varied subject matter.

I attach examples where you can see what I am talking about. Having said that, I hope that the moderators will do something to improve the quality of the publications. Thank you.

Edit v1.01: Change pronouns (he/him -> they/them)

  • Bloops@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    11 months ago

    I will solve this by simply posting cool art to the leftsthetics community. No need to thank me. 😌

  • nour@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    !leftsthetics@lemmygrad.ml moderator here (though rather inactive lately). I agree, this is not how the community is supposed to be used. No-one said anything about it for a long time, so I figured everyone else was okay with it and kept it up.

    So, how exactly to proceed now? It would be good to message the user and ask them to direct their posts to a more fitting community like !latino_marxista@lemmygrad.ml which they already moderate. Problem is, I don’t speak Spanish. Does anyone on here speak Spanish and could write such message?

    • Valbrandur@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      I can. I will try to get in contact with them.

      Update: they have posted again on c/leftsthetics around 20 minutes ago and they did not reply to my message, so I wouldn’t expect anything.

  • Soviet Snake@lemmygrad.ml
    0·
    11 months ago

    They also post Spaniard stuff on Latino Marxista which also doesn’t make sense at all, I get it if you maybe post some Soviet stuff for the sake of it okay but Spaniard communism?

      • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
        1·
        11 months ago

        Spain is across the ocean from LatAm. If it’s also for Spanish stuff then it might as well be called hispano marxista or something like that. That would then exclude Portuguese or indigenous languages which are common in LatAm.