I don't know, it just reminds me of when Musk bought twitter and ppl online (especially this site) were like "hahahahah it's gonna implode in a week loolololol" and guess what, twitter is still around and now Musk is even more politically powerful. It kind of reminds me of how ppl were hyping up mastadon, blue sky, etc. and honestly who really uses those sites?
There's also the language barrier, like are ppl actually gonna seriously try to learn Chinese? Just installing duolingo and maybe doing a two day streak is what I predict most people will do. Btw learning a language from duolingo is like learning about socialism from AOC, i.e. it's actually harmful.
I just see this as a media hype cycle that will die down in a week or two and it's frustrating that ppl who call themselves materialists are now putting their faith (ironic right?) into some magical app just because it's controlled by a Chinese company, etc. The same ppl who say that real agitation/organizing/etc. is done offline are now advocating for some pure online shit and honestly just basing it off pure vibes. Kinda cringe.
Can you provide a few examples of “ The same ppl who say that real agitation/organizing/etc. is done offline are now advocating for some pure online shit”?
Yeah the mods themselves. There was sticked a post about a Red Note agitprop contest. And other mods didn't take it down, so it was tacitly approved. And I know for a fact that they have said multiple times that "this is just a shitposting website, not a place for real organization" etc etc.
Yeah, shitposting isn't organizing, but that doesn't mean doing agitprop has zero effect. And if you're going to be shitposting anyway, why not talk to the masses where they are?
I say this as someone who was indeed moved from a vaguely left-leaning person to a principled, studied Marxist-Leninist by the "where did that bring you? back to me
" post back on r/CTH
Online shit is free, plus it's fun to organize an event like that in the same way it's fun to contribute to a zine even if it's not actually revolutionary activity
No one thinks that online agit prop will bring about revolution, but it's not gonna hurt and isn't really taking away from anything.
The way I'm reading your argument is thus: the mods are advocating for an exclusive online strategy only.
I don't think that the point of the post you mentioned was a mod directive to only use the internet now lol