all good until the last part. If the choice is between starving and western interference, guess what everybody is going to pick?

There’s none. I have ML friends who went to jail in Iran for student organizing and they also say it’s all very underground and fragmented. Nonetheless, they also acknowledge that the vast majority of people in Iran is both anti-USA and anti-government so the terrain is potentially ripe.

But that’s exactly my point: it’s pointless to blame the people for just wanting to live a better life when the responsibility of offering a viable path to structural progressive change should come from leftist organizing. Nobody sane, and this excludes armchair tankies on the internet, will ever think “I should stay put and obedient because even though I’m starving, expressing dissent might reinforce problems in the geopolitical scenario”. Have you ever seen an angry or a starving human? That’s not how they think, and it’s definitely not how they should be thinking. You cannot blame and punish the vulnerable individual for the lack of collective political organizing. The only result would be that you would be marked as an enemy (and maybe an idiot) and your political agenda will be ignored, as it systematically happens to micro-ML purist parties.

Hello. Thanks for the input. We know most of these and TWC is globally under a process of moving towards a self-hosted infrastructure. We have a self-hosted url shortener, but we still have to structure a process to guarantee that the social media teams use them.

For the calls, Zoom is pretty entrenched in our infrastructure, but we plan to eventually replace it. For obvious reasons of hardware performance, we are keeping it as one of the last steps, because we often organize webinars with 100+ people, and our current infrastructure probably wouldn’t handle it with like a jitsi instance or similar.

The security party is also intended as a way to attract people who could bring more expertise on these topics into the infrastructure team and accelerate this transition.

There are more than two sides. I side with the Iranian people, against the Iranian government and against the American government. People who think in “good vs bad” rather than power structures always believes there can only be two sides and it’s part of the naivete of this article.

yes. The event is on an American time zone so I kept the American format. We might repeat it on an European time zone if there’s interest.

This article is childish and naive.

The role of these articles is to distract from the fact that the Left is so incompetent that the only entity capable of profiting from an insurrection within a reactionary regime is the USA. The blame is on the Left, not on the insurrection.

This kind of content is just morphine for Leftists who want to keep the Left powerless.

which expands the group of people that can do this from mobile cybersec people to anybody with some foundations of IT management skills

Inshallah

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CET, it’s in the title

I guess here the topic is more of insurrections, like what’s happening in Iran right now or how it went on in HK

I have no clue what you believe this event is actually about and why people go there.

Freedom of information is freedom for the most powerful to use that information for their profit. The more powerful you are, the more tools you have to harness common goods for profit.

God forbid a technical person becomes an adult and starts understanding power, money, and politics. Engineers should be babies playing with their toys and being idealistic and irresponsible about their impact on the world.

We don’t need to involve racism, an American pseudo-science, to consider Americans barbarians. That’s what an American would do: to reduce everything about race when it has nothing to do with it.

Also, it’s white guilt, we all know American liberals and leftists enjoy this stuff.

If in 2026 you’re on X, I don’t think privacy would matter much to you. People will go to platforms that give them what X was giving them. Mastodon doesn’t offer porn, it doesn’t offer visibility to journalists, it does offer a little of bit of arguing with strangers, but definitely nowhere near the levels of X, where you can do it at any time of the day. Bluesky is still the best alternative on all these points.

We cut ties with American people because they are annoying, puritanical and self-entitled.

Saying shit like this is very American, for example.

Include anche la lingua inglese. Da adesso su Lemmy si parla solo Italiano.

The issue with this line of reasoning, which is correct and the only reasonable way to approach protests, is that protests are sold to participants as if they are actions that do something in the world, because at some point in history, they did. The people attracted by protests are people who want to protest. Even if you attract them into your org, they will still carry that mindset that politics is about words, expression and dissent, rather than power, leverage, change, and impact.

Probably most potential good organizers avoid protests actively because they do understand intuitivelyy they don’t work and why they don’t work.