Published Date 11/6/13 8:46 PM
Organising on Facebook is suicide for the internet and the future of our society. We need to do different, and we need to do this now, luckily this isn’t actuality a very hard thing to do.
The most simple/basic thing to do is to have an organising website hosted on a independent/activist server – you can ask such people as OMN for a social office organising site or network23 for a basic blog. Then to reach into (but not be controlled by) the closed walls of Facebook you can post links to your content FROM YOUR SITE to Facebook. With this, you can kinda have the best of both worlds.
The second part is more ambitious and geek centred, read this link for some ideas on building tools LINK
It’s important not to get engrossed in the geek/activist paranoia about security – the is non-on the #openweb, it was designed that way, and It’s why it has been so successful at tacking over the world in the way it has. If you want to do anything secret or possibly illegal – do not do it on ANY activist or corporate website, that’s what physical meet-ups are for.
The is a potential small exception to this statement, will talk about Per-Per encrypted connections in another post – BUT this is not a thing to use for 99% of activist communication so not relevant here.
At a minimum, all future campaigns should be using the atavist hosting and post links to inside the walled corporate internet. I can help, leave a comment here on this activist hosted site. Or try this site out for organising
