Hey,
Existing community rules had the following stated, leaves some room for interpretation:
“Post must have Antiwork/Work Reform explicitly involved in some capacity. This can be talking about antiwork, work reform, laws, and ext.”
In a way endless growth capitalism and just about everything that makes up a lot of US politics, the police state and the growing rise of fascism around the globe can make work seem pointless or can meaningfully contribute to a person feel trapped participating in that broken system so that they can feed their families. So in a lot of ways “talking about antiwork” can be a pretty broad topic - if that’s what the community wants it to be.
That said, there is also some literature cited in the sidebar as a basis of this specific movement. If the community wants a more narrow definition of antiwork, in alignment with one or a few of those philosophies, that can be very valuable as well.
So, what’s working in this community for you, what could be helped along with a bit more consistent attention in moderation? What do you appreciate in other “antiwork” communities around the web that you’d like to see on this instance?
The community needs the moderator(s) to not go on interviews with media, like what happened with the reddit community.
In summary, the mod went on Fox News to explain the movement and they didn’t clear this with the rest of the mods, nor did anyone think they were a good representative of the community.
https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/scsqtd/were_being_talked_about_on_fox_news/
I do remember that moment, that was quite a thing to see unfold in real time.
FWIW, I personally don’t see a reason that there would ever be such an urgency to participate in fox news’ low information at best, misinformation at worst, entertainment programming (glancing past the type of person who’s entertained by that). There’s just no angle you could consider where the producers arranging that interaction had anything but the worst intentions, and for a person with any humility, you would also have to know that as ignorant and unprepared as many of these people seem on the surface, it’s often an “every man” people’s populist act to try to get folks in red states on welfare to accept you and aspire to not be ashamed to live loud and proud as the temporarily embarrassed millionaires they always knew they were in their quiet moments. Sure, they can be humiliated and exposed by competent peers, but these are uniformly media trained, prep school and ivy league educated hate machines.
IMO, the majority of folks would have fallen in that moment, but what actually happened there was especially hard to witness. And fox was obviously the most egregious example, but I’d think about the same of any media request coming in from about any news network today. Outside of any type of previously discussed, organized and clearly shared goal that required media exposure for some reason, I don’t see why you’d want to engage with one of these organizations, especially on a taped video interview. If the community did want a statement made, at best I’d see it being something written and run by folks in the community, with a clearly stated deadline for feedback to consider.
Thank you. It’s not unique to Fox News and the like of course, so we need to stay on our toes. It only takes one mod with a slightly bigger ego than sense to get lured into this trap.
Perhaps it would be cool to share resources about what to do when it’s shown in the media or when talking to the media? I don’t think the latter will happen for a while, but at least it would help us build resources to combat the misconceptions and show people what antiwork actually means.
As you say, likely a long time until the next moment like that, if ever - that was an unprecedented rise in popularity during the “great resignation” news cycle. An even longer shot on attention with Lemmy, but agree generally - we are stronger together and should share. Clarity in strong messaging we believe in and consistency in the delivery, especially when facing adversity, is the equation in my experience.