/siberia/ - Off-topic

Was that /leftypol/'s stillborn attempt at making a blog?

>>686886
Less blog and more magazine I guess. Like Compact Magazine. It was originally supposed to take threads here and tidy them up and then publish them. But at a certain point, it seemed they went to individuals and asked them to write. Both users here and people outside the site. And lowkey it is the leftypol's base fault, in that the editor would ask us to pitch ideas and stuff and the response wasn't the best. I think after a while, maybe due to life and general lack of interest it was shut down like 2 years ago. My favorite was always British labor union one. A product of a thread I believe:
https://medium.com/new-multitude/the-decline-of-british-unions-wilson-heath-callaghan-and-thatcher-e077a404362d

Will say, find it ironic that the end of New Multitude coincided with the revitalization of Leftypol's twitter account. I would think the amount of exposure that account would have on New Multitude would probably justify keeping it running and hell get some people not in leftypol to write on it. Imagine a Yugopnik, Hakim, hell Paul Cockshott (since we somehow got him to do an AMA) writing for it. Alas, it is in the dirt. Hopefully the infrastructure is still around in case anyone wants to pick it up. But for now, I contributed (could have done more though) to it the way I did and that is in a way enough for me.

>>686892
>the leftypol's base fault
There was enough for several articles in the various cybersoc threads. The NM guy got told this over and over, even which posts specifically and how to stitch them together. No response. Could even have just copy-pasted some of these with no editing whatsoever. You can't tell me that's hard work.

A person made the decision to start the project. Later the same person made the decision to stop running it. That's the person whose "fault" it is. (Maybe it's for the better: The recent series of political economy threads are under the reign of the most dedicated troll I have ever seen. I shudder at the thought of this shit getting made into articles by somebody who doesn't know better.)

>>686897
>Imagine a Yugopnik, Hakim, hell Paul Cockshott (since we somehow got him to do an AMA) writing for it.
All of these people already air their views elsewhere. The new thing was taking specifically anonymous imageboard posts as material to check, edit, remix.

>>686921
>The NM guy got told this over and over, even which posts specifically and how to stitch them together. No response
I might've missed this or it was a private exchange but never saw this. Any nM thread was always low count thread and never any suggestions. Maybe vague "I have an idea". But I do agree that he dropped the ball with the initial premise of "threads -> articles", which made it interesting.

>That's the person whose "fault" it is.
Well it's hard to run when it feels like it isn't being engaged. He has access to view count so he knows how much people read it. My assumption is not a lot. And again, he would ask the user base for stuff and they didn't seem to reciprocate. At least from what I saw. Though if he did miss his chance with y'all, it would be a shame

>All of these people already air their views elsewhere
Well 2 are youtubers, so the video essay definitely has a different approach than a written, so it could be an interesting thing to see. And as for Paul Cockshott, it was to point to get more established folk to engage with leftypol. Such as with the AMA as of recent. The magazine was always a way to take the ideas from here and present it to the world. So I think it's fine if the world interacts with it

>thought of this shit getting made into articles by somebody who doesn't know better
Hate him or love him, I think he would know twice about these shit for brains. It's not like they tend articulate well. But I will say, I feel like he did get too self serious over time. The early stuff, while some informative, wasn't always serious. He made a whole article about someone writing erotica
https://web.archive.org/web/20230401161103/https://newmultitude.org/a-commie-joins-an-erotica-writing-group/
About the economics of runescape. There were thing he could've pulled that weren't as informative but allowed for the psyche of leftypol. So I will give credence to leftypol. It wasn't entirley your fault.