I mean it sounds crazy and people over there likely don’t give a fuck but wouldn’t it be worth a shot?

11% of Reddit is owned by the company Tencent. The company has numerous CPC party members and someone on the board of directors who’s a member as well as a deputy to the National People’s Congress.

Couldn’t we ask them, as fellow communists, if they’d consider putting some pressure on Reddit to, at minimum, push back against far-right and anti-china sentiment as well as try to get some of the leftist communities we’ve lost back?

Again I know it sounds crazy but isn’t this what our movement is all about? Solidarity and internationalism?

  • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 month ago

    Solidarity to do what? Look where we are. The way reddit is now is the reason platforms like lemmy exist. Platforms we will need to share information when the larger platforms crack down even harder. The solution is not to carve out space for communists on capitalist controlled platforms but to build our own alternatives. As much as it may upset the new people who are coming here from the banned reddit communities to have to migrate it is a good thing. Entirely getting off of all western corporate social media should be the goal.

    • bigbrowncommie69 [any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      It’s far easier to convince people who are new to socialism to join a community on a site they already use then migrate to a whole new website. You’re not thinking practically. The point is to maintain a presence wherever people are, not to form some secret society off in the corner. It makes sense for a niche fandom or some weird legally grey activities but for actually trying to build an international workers movement is self-defeating.

      We have to consider our material conditions - this is where people are communicating and spending their time. The dedicated people will come here but where will the the ones who were more passive go? The people on the path to becoming dedicated and the people who may not have much revolutionary potential but would have repeated our rhetoric to other “normies”.

      Obviously a space like this also existing is a good thing and should keep existing but to suggest we should all just flee the spaces where people are is just wrong. We need to be organising our in the open, in the streets, not hiding in some guy’s basement.

      • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 month ago

        Reddit is not “in the open” its a website most working class people have never even used. This isnt some color revolution we arent gonna be able to use western social media to organize.

        The working class are organized in the workplace. That is the meet them where they are.

        Also social media is literally a state surveillance platform. If an actual revolution comes about it will not be fast. And the capitalists will use social media data to hunt down and capture or kill any person who they see as a potential revolutionary. Using platforms they control is just putting a target on your back, and helping them to build lists.

        You say “weird legally grey activities” idk if you realize this thats what being a socialist is. They see us as criminals, and terrorists. We should always assume we will be treated as such, and take precautions.