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?

  • Kras Mazov@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I generally agree. We need to be in these platforms, but it should be made clear that we are at risk of being censored while in these big corp owned spaces. The only way to counter that is by heavily promoting spaces like Lemmy and other federated platforms among ourselves.

    We have to consider our material conditions - this is where people are communicating and spending their time.

    While you’re right, that’s mainly for the english speaking side of the planet. Here in Brasil for example, the amount of people that uses Reddit is very small, in contrast, almost everyone here have either Facebook or Instagram.

    • bigbrowncommie69 [any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      I mean that’s fair enough. So in Brazil, for instance, people definitely need to be on FB and Insta, but also it’s important to maintain Brazilian and otherwise lusophone communist spaces on reddit, in case people do show up there.

      • Kras Mazov@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        4 days ago

        Yeah 100%. I don’t use Facebook so I can’t comment on that, but Instagram have quite a few Brazilian communist pages and content creators that are growing. For example, Jones Manoel (PCBR member and content creator on YouTube) just reached more than 1.4 million followers on Instagram, his online presence in August grew more than Lula’s, which is a big feat.

        On Reddit, the main Brazilian sub, r/Brasil, is mostly leftist, but there’s also a Communist sub, r/BrasildoB.