Without #communication there can be no #resistance.

Communication is what allows isolated #dissidents to join up, understand their situation, and #plan for #action It is what allows a resistance group to break its isolation to become part of a #movement, rooted in larger #society.

#Resisters need to #communicate to #strategize, #analyze, #mobilize, and #act, especially under #repressive #surveillance states. Good communication is a prequisite to successful #recruiting, #fundraising, and movement-building in general.

And conversely, it is the #corporatemedia and other official channels of communication that allow the government to #control the popular #narrative and imagination, to #smear or #deceive resisters, to divide dissidents against each other, even to obscure or #erase struggles for #justice from collective memory. So it's no surprise-with so much at stake that effective resisters fight to reach out and communicate.

Rarely is that as dramatic as the takeover of a TV station in the middle of a parliamentary broadcast. Communication through less fantastic methods (giving #interviews, making #websites, and sharing #pamphlets) is no less important. Effective communication doesn't have to be a spectacle (and the drive to make it a spectacle can be a trap the mass media use to distort movements).

I’m not going to tell you here how to make a zine or write a press release; those practicalities are handled in more detail elsewhere. I'm going to address bigger questions that are discussed less often:

How do resistance movements communicate externally to reach #sympathizers and #supporters?

How do they deal with the power and contradictions of the mass media?

How do they communicate internally to build a shared culture and organize action?

And how do they maintain safe communication - especially in #underground groups-when dealing with repressive states and pervasive surveillance?

today is officially *THREE* weeks until the submission deadline for Good Internet magazine!

Good Internet launches in May 2025. it's a volunteer-run, not-for-profit print and digital quarterly magazine for personal website owners and those interested in using the internet as a means of self-expression, art, and recreation.

we're looking for 1,500-4,000 word articles about anything related to that!

you could write about:

* #internet history
* personal #websites
* #accessibility on the #indieweb
* finding inspiration for a #blog
* #webdesign trends
* running from the #enshittification of the #web
* lessons or post-mortems from #webdev projects
* news or overviews of #opensource projects

if it relates to hobbies on "this side of the web," whether you call it the #smallweb or indieweb, we probably want to run it!

you can have your article as low-media (meaning only text and images) or interactive, where you code an entire webpage to help tell your story.

if you're interested in learning more, you can sign up for our email list for when we launch or you can check the submission guidelines @ https://goodinternetmagazine.com!

(please boost if you can! <3)

I was so inspired by @sophie's excellent write-up that I wrote one of my own. It mostly echoes what she said, since we share a similar history with the web, but I wanted to add my own perspective.

The true form of decentralization through the bliss of personal websites
https://rolle.design/the-true-form-of-decentralization-through-the-bliss-of-personal-websites

boosting this to remind folks that the deadline for this is march 15, just shy of a month!

if you like #writing about the #internet, #enshittification, taking back our digital power by creating #websites, #blogs or #blogging (in the meta way!), and/or #coding and #webdev, please consider writing or coding for GOOD INTERNET magazine:

https://tilde.zone/@xandra/113913277766098384

Browsing here and there on the web, I still see "Share it on Twitter" with Twitter logo... Not sure if website owners are aware Twitter died few years ago.
Or if they just don't assume to still be on fascist social network with a X p*rn like name...

It's a little bit similar to newspapers not assuming to talk about "X", they need to precise "X (formerly twitter)" like, I don't know, to ensure the reader understand they're not talking about a p*rn site..?

"There is a hidden value in blogging. There’s an old Zen saying: “Chop wood, carry water.” You do it not for the applause but because it needs doing."

https://andysblog.uk/why-blog-if-nobody-reads-it/

Question for free website maintainers: how long would you wait before deleting new accounts that hadn't been logged into since the day they were created and showed no other engagement with your site?

I'm feeling like it would be cool to make a website that can act as a bit of a portfolio and host my printable zines and maybe some tutorials.

I'm thinking I might start with Neocities, but if I stick with this idea I'm interested in learning how to self host and if anyone wants to share resources on how to do that for beginners I would love to hear about that!
#webdev #websites #websitebuilding #selfhosting

#authoritarian and #fascist resistance #communication #tools :

#Communcation #tools #Guide. Intro 1/2.

These tools will generally fall into two categories: #privacy oriented comm #websites, #software oriented at direct communication & #broadcast and informational tools for sharing to and learning from communities without interdiction or manipulation by algorithms or ownership, including the much of the #fediverse.

(Quick Link via #EFF https://ssd.eff.org/module/communicating-others)