bigbrowncommie69 [any]

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Cake day: August 20th, 2021

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  • 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.





  • Main thing for me was just getting updates from youtubers on when videos would drop and shit. Other appeal was just like “joke” accounts where the user would pretend to be a character or post OC of some kind. And there was some that just posted interesting shit like old ads or random “perfect” movie frames. The changes since Musk took over has basically killed those tho. And then there was just the whole appeal of microblogging where if you actually cared about what someone had to say about a movie or whatever or some random thought they had. So friends but also celebrities and stuff. It made sense. But now it’s just a very different sort of site. It’s a “content” site, everyone churning out “content” for “engagement”