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- Local sites where commenting is allowed can get problematic security-wise for those posting, as a more localized pool of users is easier to investigate and keep track of by a local police than an international users pool by... the FBI?

I lived through the epoch when you had an Indymedia site in most major Western cities and well, putting aside the major issues that caused their demise and just looking at the first layer of benefits, they somewhat helped at supporting local projects and actions. The biggest shortcoming to overcome imo is how to use them for aboveground shit without watering down a movement in a way that gives space and leverage to the same old crowd of recuperative bougie Leftoids like those often found at the bookfairs, then end up, once again, with a black bloc as the pathetic black ops of a liberal socialist intelligentsia.

(I'm looking in the direction of some users here)

So the idea's pretty good as far as whoever runs these sites are being conscious of the many pitfalls. North Shore Counter Info especially have been doing well, but I think that's also due to an irl milieu of people who aren't bullshit, or at least not associating with people who're complete bullshit.

- The anarchist reddits are a joke. They been overrun by /r/socialism idiots. Reddit's also run by hostile interests, even if not as bad as the Zuckerborg or your other edgy-ass billionaires like Dorsey.

- Raddle is kinda okay nowadays, yet there ain't much discussion going on, up/downvotes may not contribute to a healthy discursive environment, and it also got into transgender fanaticism for a while.