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The Left Needs to Change Our Social Media Use
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We definitely need to go with the old internet way of websites linking to other websites their authors like. I've been thinking for a while that it would be nice if Lemmygrad/hexbear, tankietube and matapacosdog all linked to each-other in places where everyone can see them. We should also link across languages whenever possible and link to similar communities in Spanish, Russian, Chinese or whichever else.
Also, we're really under-utilizing the fediverse's capability to have users and contents from completely different software interact directly with each-other.
We should also try to form a base of dedicated content creators who would create content specifically or at least primarily for our spaces, artists to post art, pictures and creative writing of lemmygrad, hexbear and matapacos, musicians and videasts to post music and videos on tankietube.
Even a simple webring might be a step up from what we're doing now. I'm sure we could get the admins of each site to at least put some links into the sidebar. A webring though, that's retro and cool!
I have nothing useful to add to these ideas but I just want to say yeah a webring would be cool and fun.
These are sick, and that marxism.org one is really tickling me for some reason. You just had these on deck? Also, what kind of dope name would our webring have?
I’m a collector of old(-looking) commie/lefty websites and graphics 🫡
I like "The People's Web(ring)" and "USSWR, The United Socialist Sites Webring" mentioned below
I feel the People's Web could be a way to refer to the concept of the commie side of the indie/alt/personal/non-corporate/etc. web in general and USSWR for the webring :)
Is there a way for me to see your collection 👀.
I floated the idea of "The Peoples Network" a while back in another post, and then I found out that chuds have captured that name. It's also apparently the name of a multilevel marketing company.
I do like the sound of "The People's Web" as a subsection of the Indie/alt web movement, though. I did manage to acquire the domain abolish.capital which I'm just itching to use as more than just a whole ass copy of the manifesto.
it's to bad .web tld are not a thing (yet). I feel like I'd need to grab a good thepeoplesweb.tld. I could probably get www[.]peopleswebr[.]ing.
I don't have it displayed anywhere at the moment, but I'll let you know if I put something up.
Here's some sites that are the type I look for (no particular order). I recommend looking at the external links of the archived sites if you'd like to go browsing around more sites from the same era. Looking up communist related search terms on https://gifcities.org/ can also bring you to some interesting sites. And looking at the oldest archived versions of currently active sites can dig up some interesting outlinks too.
links
https://web.archive.org/web/20051130032722/http://www.mltoday.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20030205055716/http://www.neravt.com/left/
https://web.archive.org/web/19990129045852/http://lists.village.virginia.edu/%7Espoons/marxism/marxism.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20010124184100/http://stopnato.home-page.org/ ~ maybe we can revive our own version of the anti-NATO webring on this page :)
https://web.archive.org/web/20011214154157/http://www.buko24.de/nato_eng.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20050415081219/http://www.freethefive.org/
https://web.archive.org/web/20030401081318/http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20041122015552/http://www.che-lives.com/home/
https://web.archive.org/web/19981202075013/http://www.rednet.org/
https://web.archive.org/web/19980623222341/http://www.sacp.org.za/ ~ and their links page
https://web.archive.org/web/20041208085413/http://geocities.com/bulgybear/peace.html
https://web.archive.org/web/19990202155401/http://www.cartoonwork.com/Archive.html ~ lefty political cartoons
https://web.archive.org/web/20000302234956/http://www.marxists.org/index.htm ~ marxists.org in 2000
https://firethistime.net/ (this site is still active but the style looks old)
a few more graphics
Also of interest:
CIA 2010 covert communication websites
The CIA Built Hundreds of Covert Websites. Here’s What They Were Hiding
I'll keep an eye on abolish.capital. It really would be fun if you got a webring going. And maybe you should list the page on https://sitesforpalestine.neocities.org/ when you have some other content up :D
What a feast for the eyes!
ngl I'm gonna steal some of those.
She hammer and sickle and Stalin star trek ship goes so hard.
o7
The RedRing? The week when decades happen? Workers of the world united? The bunker? The people's web? The deeply serious communists? Karl's chill corner?
The Popular Front For Liberation and Socialism Webring, or PFLSWR if you're nasty. WWWW, Workers World Wide Webring. USSWR, The United Socialist Sites Webring. Cominterwebring, or the Communist International Webring. PLWR, The Peoples Liberation Webring. The Abolish Capital Webring (apparently abolish[.]capital is an available domain name).
I vote for abolishing its availability by taking it.
It is done!
We are in ~~business~~ commune!