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Yeah, that tracks. I'll grant you that there are those left spaces on reddit that can get really tankie really quickly. (I don't go to the ones in the fediverse - might eventually lurk tho with a critical mind of course).
I just find myself dismissing them pretty easily and making my own space. Left politics got really weird and counterproductive, so I found /r/TraumaAndPolitics and made that a small space that had some pretty interesting leftist conversation through a language of trauma. (I had made /r/TraumaInformedPolicy, but only found /r/TraumaAndPolitics a few days later, but we made the subs around the same time, oddly enough).
I suppose I shouldn't dismiss the experiences of those who stayed at the expense of authoritarian communist propaganda and have likely been damaged in some way because of it.
It's just that I find this fear counterproductive when it comes to building communities, if we're betting that most people aren't going to like Authoritarian Communisim (and that's a damn good bet) then the idea is to get as many people into the community as possible as fast as possible.
I have some on-the-ground ideas that I'll experiment with for tucson.social and report back when we see how that works.