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Discussions about degrowth and all sorts of related topics. This includes UBI, economic democracy, the economics of green technologies, enviromental legislation and many more intressting economic topics.

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[META] Direction of the Community (self.degrowth)

submitted 4 months ago by MrMakabar to c/degrowth

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Degrowth as a community topic has somewhat of a problem, in that it is rather limited. Posting about the need to shrink the economy smartly becomes repetitive over time. So I tried to increase the scope of the community a bit by allowing other related topics like UBI, housing cooperatives, worker owned companies and so forth. However I do understand that this might be controversial. So I have a few question to the people intressted in this commuity:

Is increasing the scope of the community a good idea?
What topics should be offtopic in this community? As in do we allow say discussions about renewable energy, carbon markets and maybe even green stocks. Right now I see a bunch of China economy posts. Are those reasonable?
Should I rename the community to reflect a wider scope of discussion? If so what name would be good?
How can we make the community more intressting in general? Say topic of the week, more memes or whatever.
Where should the moderation line be? No swearing or going for even implied insults.

I would love to get some good feedback and suggestions. Thanks for them in advance.

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[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Okay, so here's my thoughts. Degrowth is bigger then just shrinking the economy. It's also about lifestyle and outlook changes. Yes, the core of it is economy reduction, but to do that you need to explore alternatives that facilitate that. A nation can reduce spend on energy by investing in renewables and becoming energy independent. So articles that talk about renewables on a macro level should be welcome.

As for the rest, it's a case of if you build it, they will come. If you post articles, I'll be sure to reply. Worry about the rest later.

Also don't be afraid to cross-post. That's how people find things.

[–] MalReynolds 5 points 4 months ago

Nice that you're actively moderating in the democratic fashion.

Personally:

Scope will increase if you moderate well, and in this case because (IMO) there's a historical imperative (or we all gonna die)

Worry about offtopic when there's enough, it'll likely become apparent.

Just own Degrowth (sans modifiers, i.e. no Economics as if people mattered)

Keep posting, it'll happen (also rss feed filtering on degrowth may help)

Eh, nazis bad, swearing at nazis OK (IMO). You need a larger sample size...

[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Please stop removing the word "fuck" like you need to appeal to advertisers.

[–] MrMakabar 2 points 4 months ago

I do not remove the word "fuck" for the sake of advertising. I remove it, when it is used to insult other people. "Fuck the Cult of Productivity" is fine, but "Fuck who ever thought about the term 'underconsumption'." is just an insult to whoever came up with the term.