Would it be possible to ad bots like the ones from r/thedeprogram that discuss prevalent myths about Communism?
For example, the bot that talked about tiananmen square, it contained concise information that debunked common western narratives about the event.
Would this be useful though, considering lemmygrad is heavily vetted against right-wing infiltration?
Please, let me know what my fellow proles think.
I actually answered a similar question just today in this comment lol
Edit: You also raise a good point
Would this be useful though, considering lemmygrad is heavily vetted against right-wing infiltration?
From my understanding you’re correct, Lemmygrad is already very protected from bad faith actors (thanks to tools like defederation and the vetting questions to sign up in the first place).
That also means however that this community is less visible to some users - specifically the ones that would benefit from those replies the most.
I would be curious to hear the community’s opinion on this so I might make a separate post :)
Do you mean defederation as in a one-way mirror type thing where we see them but they can’t see us?
Exactly! Because Lemmygrad is already defederated from some (more popular) instances, that means that a user from one of those instances won’t be able to interact with us or our content.
When talking about users who would benefit the most from our study guide and wiki, I’m referring to people who are not openly leftist or Marxist Leninist.
But because of defederation, those users have no direct access to our community, so it might be a good idea to consider how to approach that. I will likely make a post here to ask users for their opinions and feedbacks on this
Perhaps a command to call these resources would be useful. I remember that the reddit implemented a feature near the end where if you did !Uyghur/Xinjiang/etc it would call the bot to reply to you.
Personally I’m always on the side of making information more available as exposure makes it more likely people can eitheir be radicalized (which will he helpful as more refuges enter here) or simply to refine someone’s own understanding.
It’s why I still interact with the LateStageCapitlism subreddit, as there’s still people there to radicalize or inform.
Your comment echoes something I’ve been thinking about as well.
It wouldn’t be a problem for me to prepare similar short answers that users could rely on (just like it was possible on the old sub when typing commands such as !uyghur, for example).
The “issue” in that case would be the audience itself, since defederation means that Lemmygrad and - by extension - this community too, are already separated from other instances where there might be more users who could benefit from those answers.
I’m also of the opinion that the more users we can help radicalize, or encourage to think more deeply about society, the better. But on Lemmygrad, most users are already familiar with those starting points.
I’ll make a post about this very topic tomorrow to ask the community at large for its input.
I tend to use grad as a hub for information, which I then use in more pilubluc forums and settings. However if we’re interested in facilitating people to move away from corporate social media to federated alternatives, we want them to come here ideally, and for that we must build the infrastructure to accommodate that.
Part of that is accessible information, (I get extremely annoyed by the search function on the jerboa app), along with welcoming communities. Sometimes people can be a bit quick to go on the attack I’ve noticed, though it’s not exactly unwarranted.
I made the post asking for feedback that I mentioned in my previous reply. Feel free to write what you said yesterday over there too :)
