Greetings comrades, i am always surprised and melancholic about the many comms in the grad and would love to see them more active.
Since we’re deeply rooted in theory I’m sure we wont just post shit if we were to engage in one unused comm every day for a week for example. Everyone could just find their favorite “abandoned” comm and revive it by posting some interesting tidbits there for a week without burning themselves out. That way the comm would be shown in active and other comrades would subscribe to it and post themselves maybe. This would maybe attract more members and so on.
What other challenges can you think of that would benefit the grad and ultimately the cause?
One thing that always stays in my mind is how we can build like a real life network of commie orgs around the world to help eachother out. Specifically when it comes to ML tendencies. But privacy concerns and real life safety are some issues that come up when I think about it.
As a techie and considering myself rather paranoid, these are valid concerns. But as always in dialectic materialism, we need to use those contradictions to propel us forward.
For example, as a german ML i made the germany comm on grad because it is federated and not under my name so I can tell all MLs that I meet to come here because it has no direct connection to me. That way I can stay in contact with them without a direct papertrail.
Federation is imo the best concept ever. We could top if off with a tor network site which allows the near total anonymization of people.
The big issue currently is that you basically need to think online activism very different from offline activism. Offline activists need to leave their phone at home, split their persona in two entities so they can go and do activism after breakfast and be the normal citizen in the afternoon with their google account, netflix and microsoft.
But as an online activist, one needs to split into multiple personas at best, layering security on demand and while keeping usability in mind. I for example have my main alias which can be doxxed somewhat easily, especially when money is involved but it is still so much work that it doesnt happen a lot. I keep fairly vanilla on here.
If someone were to, say, plan more or interact internationally, they would ideally split themselves once more but from top to bottom. Like, have a computer which is completely encrypted (or a virtual machine at least), have no comfort features at all, only use tor, then register some account on some anonymous board, never use it outside that space, etc. Of course there are more considerations such as keyloggers or OS level compromise. That would have to be dealth with by using an old thinkpad with a custom bootloader, etc. There are probably even more things to consider today but thats alraleady gonna suck big time if you’re a fed trying to go after some little political activist.
But if you want to (nearly) bulletproof grad or at least have a dark web mirror to get out of government reach (i think you’re hosted at hetzner as well, right? Thats one click to get the ips of all of us tbh) lets chat. :)
