The anarchist community on Reddit is fairly large, but not very anarchist. There's a very strong authoritarian bent to their claimed anarchism. I had hopes that the nature of this place would invite a community that was anarchist not only in name but in spirit, but I've seen surprisingly little sign of that, or even really of anarchism at all.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

FYI: https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/safelisted?tags=anarchist

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

db0 is real anarchists, as far as I can tell. Because they are not overbearing about it, it's harder to be aware of them.

I think by definition, it's easier to be aware of the "official" self-identified anarchist communities than the ones that are just doing their own thing.

[–] WatDabney@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I assumed that they were at least anarchism-adjacent - it's pretty much a prerequisite for the bulk of their focus.

I hadn't really looked into their political posting much though, and yeah - even with just a cursory glance, it's promising.

And I hadn't thought about that distinction between people who simply hold a position and people who "officially" wear the label in the context of anarchism (though I've noted it often with atheists), but yeah, there's undoubtedly some truth there.

Thanks for the heads-up.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 1 week ago

The slrpnk admins, as far as I can tell, stand in the same relationship to anarchism that your average megachurch organization does with Christianity.

If all you look at is the words, it looks like they're supporting it.

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Absolutely yes. Anarchists on reddit were largely only anarchist by name, and we don't even have a proper community here. And anarchist communities on instances such as lemmy.ml are even worse, to be honest. Most political representation on lemmy is for authoritarian leftists, where's the love for anarchy :(