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?
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.