Squat the Planet has serious issues!

Here's the video: https://youtu.be/ORTD_Bz-DVs

Or you can read this post!

Squat the planet is and online alternative traveling community that set up for white men by white men.

they talked about acab, anti-fascist, and anarchy all day, but if you bring up white male privilege prepare to be the villain. Then you're racist, sexist, and making blanket statements. but you're not bad for making blanket statements against police officers because "there are some good cops." But if you say there are no good cops because they all enforce systemic oppression and confirm to an institution, and you should be able to say that about white male privilege to. But you can't, because the white males running and fueling the website don't want to acknowledge that they have privilege and we'll get mad at you.

And they can't take any kind of criticism. If the main administrator had to save face to save life, there would be no face and all death.

Which leads me to what happened before I got muted.

One of the former moderators posted about why they left. In response, the head administrator berated the person and even went so far as to call the person a coward. Or call people that don't talk to people directly about their issues cowards. But when you handle things like that, why would anyone want to talk to you? Why do you feel like you're owed direct contact when you're defensive and explosive?

and some of the people in the community were supportive, but the other moderators weren't that much better, and more sided with the administrator.

this wasn't the first moderator to leave with this list of grievances, and I doubt it will be the last. But from what I can tell, the list of grievances as to why people have been long time dedicated to the community have a lot of the same issues. They feel like the community is overall less dedicated, and they have issues with the head administrator's decision making and attitude. Not to say that there aren't also varying individual issues.

Unfortunately, I don't have any of the skills required to build a website and start an online community. I posted around a few places to see if anybody would want to help build something that would be an alternative to squat the planet, but I can't stand my line with not much expectation to hook any fish. But certainly if not me, then someone else. I hope someday very soon, someone else comes along, see squat the planet and sees all of its problems, and build and maintain something better. maybe not better as a fancy website, but being better as a functional supportive, positive community is more important. a community not run by heterosexual cisgender white men. Instead run by a group of people that understand oppression and don't care about catering to privileged people's comfort zones.

but getting the bare minimum credit where it's due, at the very least people's grievances aren't silenced. The administrator could easily remove or move criticisms out of the public eye, but they stay there, with everyone's bad behavior on display. But it's definitely more about sending a message of "don't criticize me" then respect for the person's viewpoint, for which there is obviously none of. But that's the bare minimum. The site wouldn't be the same if people found out that the administrator and moderators were censoring people's criticisms.

I can't suggest this website for anyone decent. There are plenty of resources on wiki how to figure out how to do whatever you want with traveling. You can look up local laws yourself, talk to locals and other travelers in person, and pretty much figure out everything you need to know without that website. But I will still hope for a new, better platform.

In the meantime, safe travels!