Proactive.

      With the big social media platforms, all run by billionaires, who, to put it mildly, have no love of anarchists, ever tightening controls on who gets in and who doesn't, should we now be organising to walk away before the kick us all out? Proactive rather than reactive. We know that it is coming, it's just a matter of time.

The following food for thought from Anarchist News:

      Last week, after Crimethinc, IGD, Enough is Enough and others were banned from Fedbook, our friend Ziq gave us food for thought with this post on raddle:

      We can't keep expecting platforms owned by far-right billionaires to stay honest. Anarchists are the biggest threat to any capitalist, so of course they're going to shut us down at every opportunity.
      [There are many important anarchist projects, each serving a different purpose], but they can't continue to exist in a vacuum while the social media behemoths are busy closing ranks to ensure all our efforts are stifled...
      [raddle has] always encouraged anarchists to use our platform to grow their own platforms. But it's not a one-way street. There needs to be a concerted effort between all the aforementioned anarchist venues to amplify each other's voices. Cross promotion is the only thing that will keep us all alive and kicking...

        If you were to promote other anarchist sites/venues/projects/whatever, how would you do it? Would it look like Facebook and Twitter, Cabal and Plemora, banner drop and billboard, or something completely different? What are the pros and cons of each?
       Who would you promote? Who would you not? Let's not just have a list of names; let's hear why you chose this one over that one, why anews was on top of your list, and why you'd never in a thousand years amplify [you name it].
        Does amplifying voices mean banding together, like Ziq suggests, or does it mean going it alone, but louder?
      Who already does promotion the way you'd like it to be done? Who does it in a way that you can't stand?
       Is it as important as Ziq says to cross promote each other's voices? If you think it is, how would you like to see it play out in the days ahead? If not, what are otherways of keeping us all alive and kicking?

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Opposites.

 

        As the following article states, we can't expect large capitalist organisations to continually allow their platforms to promote anti-capitalist material. I think it only makes sense that if these large corporate beasts see that they are promoting something that will lead to their demise, then they will stifle it as best they can. It would be naive in the extreme to think otherwise. Anarchists depending on large capitalist organisations to promote their ideas seems somewhat odd. If we become dependent on Facebook and Twitter etc. to further our ideas sooner or later they will close that avenue down. 

          The following article is just one line of thought, it's from Raddle:

       We can't keep expecting platforms owned by far-right billionaires to stay honest. Anarchists are the biggest threat to any capitalist, so of course they're going to shut us down at every opportunity.
       Crimethinc / It'sgoingdown / Anarchistnews / sub.media / Unicornriot / Anarchists Worldwide / 325 / A-Infos / AMW English / ROAR Magazine / mastodon.social / littleblackcart / AKPress / theanarchistlibrary and raddle.me are all incredibly important anarchist projects that each serve a different purpose, but they can't continue to exist in a vacuum while the social media behemoths are busy closing ranks to ensure all our efforts are stifled.
       Every one of our projects is wholly dependent on corporate platforms for promotion and growth. The capitalists who own those corporate platforms are making it crystal clear to us that they're no longer going to tolerate us radicalizing their users against them. They'll continue to erase any anarchist, anti-capitalist or anti-fascist project that grows enough on their platforms to pose a threat to the established order.
        Here on raddle, we try to promote and support other anarchist platforms as much as possible. Our sidebar here links to all the anarchist news outlets and we regularly discuss anarchist podcasts, book fairs and events. We've always encouraged anarchists to use our platform to grow their own platforms. But it's not a one-way street. There needs to be a concerted effort between all the aforementioned anarchist venues to amplify each other's voices. Cross promotion is the only thing that will keep us all alive and kicking. If we all work together it will benefit all of us. If raddle thrives, sub.media thrives and if sub.media thrives, theanarchistlibrary thrives.
       We need to lean on each other now that we can no longer rely on individually promoting our platforms on corporate media. Every anarchist site should be prominently linking to and working with every other anarchist site to help the entire anarchist network thrive. We need each other now more than ever.
       If you work with one of the other anarchist platforms, I'd love to hear your suggestions for achieving better integration of the anarchist web.

      To help you keep in touch and spread the word, here are some Anarchist links.
        This is by no means an exhaustive list, please take it, use it, add to it, link up and spread the word.

https://325.nostate.net/ [multilingual, news, directory, distro]
https://actforfree.nostate.net/ [en, prison, news, distro]
https://www.ainfos.ca/ [multilingual, news]
https://www.akpress.org/ [en, publisher, store]
https://www.amwenglish.com/ [en, revolutionary, news]
https://www.anarchistlibraries.net/ [multilingual, library, directory]
https://anarchistnews.org/ [en, news, social, media, distro]
https://anarchistsworldwide.noblogs.org/ [en, news]
https://anarchy101.org/ [en, learning]
https://anarchyplanet.org/ [en, chat]
https://anarquia.info/ [es, blog]
http://www.anticarcelaria.org/ [es, south-america, podcast, zines, news]
https://armthespiritforrevolutionaryresistance.wordpress.com/ [en, revolutionary, archive, library, distro]
https://asranarshism.com/ [fa, afghanistan, iran, news]
https://attaque.noblogs.org/ [multilingual, news]
https://autonomynews.org/category/news/ [en, autonomy, news]
https://autonomynews.org/ [en, england, revolutionary, news]
https://barrikade.info/ [de, switzerland, news]
https://bcblackout.wordpress.com/ [en, canada, news]
https://blackautonomynetwork.noblogs.org/ [en, blackness, zines]
https://contrainfo.espiv.net/ [multilingual, news/blog, directory]
https://contramadriz.espivblogs.net/ [es, news/blog, distro]
https://crimethinc.com/ [multilingual, news/blog, media, distro, store]
https://czarnateoria.noblogs.org/ [pl, news]
https://darknessoutside.home.blog/ [en, prison, anti-racism, australia, zines, blog]
https://enoughisenough14.org/ [en/de, news/blog, store]
https://itsgoingdown.org/ [en, activism, news]
https://kolektiva.media/ [multilingual, media]
https://littleblackcart.com/ [en, publisher, store]
https://malacoda.noblogs.org/ [it, zines, news]
https://mtlcounterinfo.org/ [en/fr, canada, news/blog, zines]
https://ni.hil.ist/ [multilingual, nihilism, social]
https://www.non-fides.fr/ [multilingual, blog, directory]
https://north-shore.info/ [en, canada, news]
https://postromanticqueerwave.noblogs.org/ [en, queer, distro, art]
https://publicacionrefractario.wordpress.com/ [es, prison, news]
https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/ [en, us, news/blog, zines]
https://raddle.me/ [multilingual, social, news]
https://ragnarok.squat.gr/ [gr, insurrection, news/blog]
https://sansattendre.noblogs.org/ [fr, insurrection, news, directory]
https://www.sproutdistro.com/ [en, distro]
https://sub.media/ [multilingual, media]
https://theanarchistcinema.org/ [en, media]
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/ [en, library, directory]
https://unicornriot.ninja/ [en, us, news]
https://urbanguerilla.org/ [en, history, archive]
https://warriorpublications.wordpress.com/ [en, canada, indigenous, news]
https://warzonedistro.noblogs.org/ [en, green-anarchy, distro]

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