ofc not, no more than any is going to become educated on theory from lemmy - there's no substitute for reading books. but just like lemmy, there's comrades producing agitprop and teaching the basics to get people interested enough to read said books. is it a substitute for a real org? absolutely not - posting is not in fact praxis. but it's not meaningfully worse than the rest of social media.
I appreciate the thought, but I'll keep to the books. I'm not particularly interested in getting theory from tiktok, I've seen how wrong people can be on that platform as on any other social media.
I like TikTok, but I hate my semi-addiction to TikTok. I could be reading theory instead of mindlessly swiping those dumb videos.
They have theory on tiktok. Use the algorithm
You aren’t going to become educated on theory from TikTok
ofc not, no more than any is going to become educated on theory from lemmy - there's no substitute for reading books. but just like lemmy, there's comrades producing agitprop and teaching the basics to get people interested enough to read said books. is it a substitute for a real org? absolutely not - posting is not in fact praxis. but it's not meaningfully worse than the rest of social media.
I appreciate the thought, but I'll keep to the books. I'm not particularly interested in getting theory from tiktok, I've seen how wrong people can be on that platform as on any other social media.