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Is the role of Dessalines and the other developers who work on Lemmy (the only FOSS substitute for Reddit) as important as the role of those people who organize leftists in real life? (lemmygrad.ml)

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Does the online left and the developers who make the online left possible, have an important role in the fight against capitalism or are we all just wasting our time instead of putting more time into real life organization?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago

Nearly everyone in the west is online. There isn't a "real life" and a "fake online life."

Creating the tools to build community is important. Having places to share information and resources and experiences outside of spaces controlled by big tech is important and could become even more so if communism really threatens the status quo. That makes tools like lemmy useful.

However, it's also on the community to treat these alternative spaces as valuable, as something that can be that resource for people, and as a community that matters. Dessalines and others might have built the tools but it is on us to put them to use.