Domain migration announcement

By the end of 2025, the RTC site will fully migrate to the rtc.comrades.sbs domain - first as a mirror (its current state), then as a soft redirect, and finally as a hard redirect (to the root domain). Later, we will devolve control over the comrades.sbs domain to a group of hostees, which we will be a part of.

This decision has been taken for a variety of reasons, but it is being taken, first and foremost, to put us in equal footing with hostees and to allow for a wider variety of people to join the shared hosting arrangement, including people which may not share our politics. We have been working towards creating new avenues of collaboration for a while; there are enough rigid service-provider structures "on the left" already, and we ~were otherwise completely unremarkable in this regard.

Our desire is to create an actual community, where every member can earnestly engage with each-other, inside and outside the internet, and can do so in a truly autonomous manner.

Most of us, the people writing and reviewing the article, grew up in the age of social media, but the computer was still, to us, almost a kind of liberatory tool. Many people who are at least a little strange can relate to it as a refuge from the shock therapy of a world which otherwise despises you - or worse, looks at you with some kind of implacable pity. It was a more-or-less healthy, if flawed relationship, but this is no longer true for those born only 15-or-so years ago that would otherwise have a fraction of our same opportunity.

What was once naturally an outlet for a creative impulse has been molded by those infamous "dark patterns" and "social media algorithms" into the whip which will certainly help deliver the killing blow to this Earth, whose death date is pushed just a little bit further, remaining in that realm of "indefinite" - but no tree can grow, no community can be built, no bush can be trimmed via the sheer power of the dollar.

We cannot let ourselves be completely devoid of hope, and this hope is built via the edification of the human community, which is not necessarily a revolutionary act, but whose importance triumphs over the belief many a "vanguard party" holds in itself, and triumphs first and foremost above those sad little people who see only concessions and ever-increasing measures of social control in their future. To this aim, we act in favor of free culture and of taking advantage of these ever-marginal benefits of the digital age, although doing so under the auspices of "communism" would be counter-productive. We want more people to host their own website, to write, and to be creative without having to build a relationship of dependence, and we hope you'll do so.