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This is a Dengist community in favor of Bashar al-Assad with no information that can lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton, our fellow liberal and queen. This community is not ironic. We are Marxists-Leninists.

This community is for posts about Marxism and geopolitics (including shitposts to some extent). Serious posts can be posted here or in /c/GenZhou. Reactionary or ultra-leftist cringe posts belong in /c/shitreactionariessay or /c/shitultrassay respectively.

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Looks like Twitter is banning some socialist accounts (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by LVL@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml

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[–] qwename@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I agree with the part about owning our digital tools, the Fediverse community turns social media into a more transparent process with FOSS, and helps to turn otherwise complex software into user-friendly packages that can be setup more easily, thus putting more power into the hands of the people.

We still have to keep in mind that decentralized FOSS social media platforms aren't different from traditional social media in terms of potential to turn into reactionary walled gardens. So there needs to be something done different to avoid the cycle of:

(anarchist) decentralization -> (capitalist) centralization -> (anarchist) re-decentralization

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 10 months ago

For sure, there needs to be a conscious political effort to promote sound ideas. Simply having open source platforms doesn't magically solve that problem, but it is a prerequisite for having a voice. It's also worth noting that decentralization is perfectly compatible with principled organizing. The key is to work on building a common set of ideas and understanding across the network that's grounded in sound theory.