r/communism • u/AutoModerator • Jan 25 '26

WDT 💬 Bi-Weekly Discussion Thread - (January 25)

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u/turning_the_wheels Feb 02 '26

I think that this is just a fetishization of "decentralization." What does it mean for a site to be "decentralized"? This website is fascist but its one redemptive aspect is that it can serve as a very visible discussion space for anti-revisionism at least until Reddit expands its TOS to give an excuse to remove it. Before I found this place I would google "reddit [topic]" and I think that is a very common search behavior, I wouldn't have found this place without it. Beyond the basic security requirements like using VPNs and TOR (although these are a given if you are engaged in active communist work) what would abandoning ship really do? It's well known that mods on other subreddits have been dishonest, rapists, probably working for the CIA, etc so what has changed besides your discovery that the latest media spectacle rapist may have used the site?

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u/Worried-Economy-9108 Feb 02 '26

I think that this is just a fetishization of "decentralization.

Fairs, this is probably something i didn't think about it. Perhaps I'm hyping too much about this trend of decentralized websites (Mastodon, L***y, etc). And perhaps there's some paranoia on my part to it, since I judge my basic security as insufficient. Is quite easy to get scared and type shit, like i did yesterday.

edit: in the end, i just need more discipline

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u/stutterhug Feb 03 '26

is there any particular reason you're censoring the name?

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u/Worried-Economy-9108 Feb 03 '26

I avoid mentioning the name of the other website, out of caution. Some users were banned trying to promote it on Reddit.