In my experience, teaching people who are actually illiterate is much easier than teaching people who are functionally illiterate, because functionally illiterate people will fight with you on the meaning and logic of basic instructions.
Social media is not a public square though. It’s literally a series of privately held companies, in privately run servers. Just because it has the appearance of a public square does not make it so. It is these kinds of misconceptions that are really harming us.
This is like saying communists should have published more in the Wall Street Journal. What we need to be attempting to do is create our own parallel infrastructure, of which thing like lemmy is a start, but we need our own social media, and ideally, our own internet infrastructure. It’s not enough to publish the newspaper you want to own the printing press.
Correct. And yet it is what needs to be done to even get and maintain a real foothold of effective radical leftist politics. It’s all very hard, but becoming a revolutionary is the hardest thing for any individual to ever do.