So, with everything currently happening it’s pretty clear that as Marxist-Leninists and revolutionary socialists, we cannot continue to rely on big sites like Reddit to host our communities. I personally love what Lemmygrad is doing here, creating an alternative community that has almost the exact same style as the kind of site most of us are used to, i.e. Reddit. Not to mention the people trying to make communities on places on Matrix which operate similarly to Discord.

However I think all of this raises an even more important question: how willing are we, as a community, to try and “expand our horizons” beyond what we’re normally used to?

I say this because, as much as I love Lemmygrad and Matrix and other Reddit/Discord alternatives, they’re kinda suited more for fast-paced discussion and memes, and not necessarily for a lot of the more in-depth conversations that require more thinking and time to respond.

@Makan and I have been going back and forth about this, about trying to experiment with different styles of platforms for building a community more suited for deep, well thought-out discussions that aren’t as much of a free-for-all as places like these tend to be.

What do you comrades think? Am I over-thinking this, or should we truly work on “expanding our brand” a little bit?