I’ll be honest, this is a low effort post and half the reason im posting is to revisit this.
Other half of the reason is to suggest we create a thorough and well-maintained subcommie (here for instance) on subjects such as those in the URL i shared. discuss
one thing that could be good in this suggested page would be @dessalines@lemmygrad.ml page on US atrocities. thoughts?
There should also be an attempt at compiling other sources as git repos (like dessalines
essays
) or as IPFS repos. Google Doc sheets and centralized sources are useful but in case sites go down the info will be lost, especially the great megathreads that comrades have posted in /r/communism.I’m currently in the process of mirroring marxists.org with the idea to put it on IPFS, and will follow with some other sites. Megathreads and other docs would be great to decentralize as well.
Sorry for the uninformed question, but what is IPFS?
Git repository sounds good, I may create one if you think that it’s useful.
It’s basically a P2P protocol (think bittorrent) which you can use to host not only just file repos but websites as well in a decentralized way. Each file uploaded gets a hash specific to the exact contents of the file; so uploading a PDF of the Manifesto will give you a hash to give to others, which points to that exact file.
It’s very git-like but without the crutch that a lot of people use git with which is a centralized upstream server. Can be accessed from a web browser as well so you can really “host” a site full of references and docs in a user-friendly way while making it more robust to server outages and takedowns/censorship.