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 No.667912

ITT: brainstorm how to bring more comrades from nationalities that do not commonly post here!
Some Russian users came to /leftypol/ from /ussr/. That was a somewhat successful attempt at internationalization of /leftypol/, and served as a proof of concept.

If you're reading this and outside of the parts of the traditional Anglosphere (US, UK, Canada, NZ, Aus) then consider letting us know where leftists in your country or language congregate online, how likely it would be for us to be able to bring any aboard, and how that may be done.
Consider even taking such an initiative yourself independently.
My personal countries of interest for this purpose:
>China
>Iran
>Japan
>Latin America in general, but particularly those with a budding left-wing movement such as Mexico, Bolivia, Venezuela, etc.
>Egypt
>Turkey
>Russia

A note about connecting with users from countries with state censors:
Keep in mind that we do have a Tor website ( 76i2c3hn55fcj5nut3tqlboqqbbh23zvphv7lefk3vftpx6wketlanyd.onion ). This should assist in evading state censors (which may not currently be necessary for accessing /leftypol/ but you can predict that anticommunist states would be interested the moment they notice it exists), but be wary of course, especially of instructing someone how to access Tor on a potentially insecure platform.
In the case of Iran, I'm aware that an estimated 50 million people there use Telegram, which can be encrypted, albeit not by default ( see https://privacyinternational.org/telegram-guides for some best practices ). It is also reportedly a popular program in Russia.

 No.667913

OP here, wanted to also list some reasons why this is highly beneficial.
Having users from a certain country gives you perspectives directly from that population. They are generally going to be saturated in the culture and politics. This lends itself to a more direct view of happenings there than filtering your views through whatever sources you can find in your native language. We can share the latest innovations in political and historical, etc., theory uniquely and newly arising in our own country with each other in a way that never would have reached us as quickly otherwise.

Having users all over the world means the boards should be more active at a more diverse range of times. This has a good feedback effect in that it uses up more of our potential activity-time, making the board more appealing for more of the time it exists and has newcomer eyes on it.

Bringing users from rare countries will make the existing few users here from those countries less lonesome. It will make their general threads more active and create more camaraderie as they share the most similar experiences.

 No.667917

>>667913
>Having users from a certain country gives you perspectives directly from that population.
I was surprised when there were actual Mongolians in the recent Mongolia thread. But yeah it's always good to see when a discussion or an election comes up and someone actually living there has insight.

 No.667918

The best way to attract people to the site is to mention to them when a relevant thread is up, especially if it's on /edu/ or a general. Not shilling, but giving them something of value. That's why the embassy shit didn't work; it's shilling.

 No.667923

>>667918
Agreed, we'd have to keep mindful of that. Next to nobody here clicks those links when somebody shows up with a "welcome to my new epic imageboard that's so great" advertisement threads, after all.
I'm more focused on attracting people from around the world who are already leftist, though, so they may have at least the slightest initial interest even if we were going for the hamfisted shilling route, which we shouldn't preferably.

 No.667970

>Egypt
Hi 😳

 No.667972

>>667912
How should I promote this site to Indobros? I mean, how should I veil this so that it's safe to be consumed here?

 No.667973

>>667970
Tell us what's up anon! I heard the feds in your country are retarded and so won't monitor much else than Facebook. But that's just rumor of course
>>667972
Indonesia or India?

 No.667974

>>667972
You can't really veil that this is a communist website. It will be immediately obvious to anyone who visits.

 No.667985

I just remembered there's a Japanese leftist board somewhere called /poverty/, I think it's a place about complaining about being poor. It may be on 2chan

 No.667986

>>667912
>china

its time to bring in chinese leftist nationalists

 No.667988

>>667973
>Tell us what's up anon! I heard the feds in your country are retarded and so won't monitor much else than Facebook. But that's just rumor of course
Yes, pretty much. The problem though is that the average Egyptian is even more tech illiterate than the government is so it evens out, but it's great for some of us at least.

It's a shame that we're not on 8chan anymore because there was an entire board for Egyptians there that were ripe for radicalizing.

 No.667992

>>667988
Is there an active leftist movement IRL? I wonder if there are Arabic speaking imageboard sites too

 No.667994

>>667992
>Is there an active leftist movement IRL?
No, any political hype here died after 2016 and in its wake there is only despair. Everyone's just focused on trying to get by and no one cares about politics anymore. It's hopeless.

>I wonder if there are Arabic speaking imageboard sites too
Not any that I've heard of, the closest thing we had to that was /egy/ back on 8chan which became complete trash towards the site's end and the occasional thread on 4/int/, otherwise Arabic social media presence is entirely restricted to the big name like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and so on *sniff*

 No.668003

Some international boards posted here (along with plenty of.. other things) https://leftypol.org/hobby/res/752.html

 No.668096

>>667973
Indonesia

 No.668102

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>>667994
>It's hopeless.
ok gloomer

 No.668107

Peru here, I know a couple of peruanons post here but not much else.

 No.668128

>>668102
lmao nice wojak, is that leftypol oc?

 No.668156

>>668128
>is that leftypol oc?
yep

 No.668158

>>667972
>how should I veil it
Advertise in Malayalam

 No.668162

Not to overcrowd the site with boards but an /int/ style board where people from around the world just chat about stuff could help with this. Maybe make that the next /roulette/ topic.

 No.668163

>>668162
also there was discussion about doing something with fediverse perhaps, maybe trying it out with a single board. IDK how international they are but having a federated /int/ board could bring a lot of people in, right?

 No.668195

>>668163
Based on my experience with Mastodon, that could work. There are many leftist oriented instances and many non English speaking ones. Particularly Japanese for some reason, but others too. I wonder if something like that could work.

 No.668266

>>667994
>Not any that I've heard of, the closest thing we had to that was /egy/
A quick glance shows that there is still an /egy/ on 8kun.top if that is of interest. Latest posts are from today.

 No.668281

>>668266
well if that's still an active community then all there is left is to wait for Egypt anon to report back what the next step could most viably be

 No.668533

>>667973
Indochina :DDDD

 No.668542

>>668266
>>668281
Yeah, /egy/ are potential entrants in the next Infinity Cup
https://anon.cafe/icup/res/2407.html

 No.668586

>>668162
I'd just make a thread now and see if there's interest. That would strengthen the argument to make a board and hopefully create a good thread regardless.

 No.668879

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Any Japanese users here?
I want to see if we can't make some form of contact with /poverty/, not necessarily now but perhaps at a prudent time.

 No.669658

>>668586
Good idea.
Here it is >>669657

Although looking at all the general threads for various regions it seems like there's already plenty of content for an /int/ board IMO.


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