Hello Lemmians:
Lemmy, Mastodon and specially Lemmygrad are oceans of peace (mostly) because fashy smartpants, botlikers and stomtroopers get b& like a boss.
You may have heard of ForoCoches (a better name would be ForoFachas). Despite its old bulletin board style, it attracts hell of a lot of traffic in the Spanish language. According to metrics, it is THE biggest forum in Spanish.
The problem? It has been utterly corrupted by fascists and nazis since 10+ years. Go take a peek, the meekest thread in General goes like "we'll put Pedro Sánchez and the feminists against the wall at minute 0 of Civil War 2", and "who do you prefer, a Charo (= Karen) or an Austrian Painter?"
Well, it's utter shit to be honest. Only good for shitposting, but even that gets tiresome.
Now, let's talk about the model this shithole and similar spaces follow. Basically you pay to get an account, which can be banned and then you pay again for a 2nd account. Then there's the ads. So it's a bunch of rich technobros living off the hate.
Sounds familiar? Yes, it's the same shit on X.
Let me apply a bit of Lenin here. The left needs to own the means of production. When applied to the means of communication, this is why I support Canal Red. But we also need internet commons such as spaces like Masto or Lemmy. We also need to own the memes of production ;) So this is also why I support Lemmy since I created an account here 2 months ago or so.
The actual question
Wtf can one do to remedy the situation? Persuade people, open instances...? I believe we absolutely need something like Lemmygrad but in Spanish and meme the fash out of existence (also using tools other than memes ofc). Or maybe there's some mythical leftist space in Spanish I've never heard of.
EDIT: In case I'm not being clear: we need politized, militant internet hangouts.
EDIT 2: As always thanks for the replies! :)
Tu idea tiene sentido y es la misma razón por la que se creyó este sitio. Es decir, para ser un espacio liberado de la política de reddit.
Sí que el mundo hispano carece una alternativa socialista y disculpa por ser derrotista. Solo es que, si tal foro existiera y fuera megapopular, estoy seguro de que nadie de mi familia o de mis colegas lo usaría siquiera. Ellos prefieren mucho las publicaciones de video al vez de texto por lo que usan facebook, youtube shorts, y tiktok exclusivamente. No sé si esto es una brecha cultural o si las cosas son así solo donde yo estoy, pero el caso es que será mucho más costoso mantener una red social de videos y por lo tanto más difícil hacerlo independientemente.
Ay, pero estoy pensando demasiado en la logística de algo que ni existe. Hay mucha más gente que mi mamá y estoy seguro que un foro izquierdista en español podría ser exitoso. Claro está, porque si todavía hay gente usando twitter es por una falta total de mejores opciones jaja