antifa is an organisation that perpetrates political violence and performs acts of terrorism.
riseup.net is a bunch of people with an anti-capitalist agenda who want to get people off Facebook. They're like @hannes2peer and @mmn , just bigger and more organized.
If you want to support a network service provider who supports antifa, support mayfirst.org instead.
Two things:
1) There is excellent left-wing criticism of antifa and their methods. I suggest you read it:
The direct connection between antifa and riseup.net is a meme mainly coming from one article by two kekistani alt-right guys, who present some flimsy evidence for it.
Even that Counterpunch article by Anthony DiMaggio got it wrong initially, so your confusion and the confusion of that steemit post is understandable.
riseup.net is an anarchist (Bakunin sense) and therefore anti-capitalist collective that provides anonymous and/or decentralized services to left-wing activists as an alternative to corporate network services. It is a fact that many antifa people use their services, and it's possible that riseup.net agrees with that use, or otherwise that it would be riseup.net's best interest to take a stance against such groups to clarify things, but I see no statements on the riseup.net site to indicate that they endorse political violence.
I'm sure there are antifa people on quitter.se and social.umeahackerspace.se too, that doesn't mean those servers and their admins support political violence.
Now, if you want to bring up a similar example of a network service provider that actually officially supports antifa tactics and therefore political violence, that would be mayfirst.org who express explicit support for Autonome Antifa Freiburg, autonome-antifa.org , who advocate e.g. violence against the police.
@moonman It gets better if you lives somewhere with a washer inside your dwelling. I really dislike it when the whole apartment (or hotel) building is trying to get into the laundry room.
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2017 23:07:16 EDT
Annah@gameragodzilla Its also dehumanising. When I was in that beat, we knew the leaders and main people in the community and they us. They were people. But when they are the Other People, the enemy, and you never get to know them, then they're not humans to you, and it's easier to do questionable things to them. Or straight up bad things as we've seen in a few places.
@combaticus @gastongarciao @CarBlanez33 @PhoneBoy Or we could start using, hosting, and _improving_ something like #Yacy P2P search. Then we'd pay up front by hosting instances attached to the global index, rather than paying by submitting to ads and intrusive spying.
@moonman I'm calling the Midwest Moms Hotline to report you. A middle aged lady will call within an hour to lecture you and drag you by your ear to the breakfast table.
@lain The original concept (different ancestries, sexes, economic backgrounds, etc for purpose of introducing different knowledge and ideas into the organization and improving organization's performance) or the metastatic perversion (different ancestries, sexes, economic backgrounds, etc for the sake of "representing diverse stakeholders")?
Once we realize that social trends tend to come in waves (first one side, then the other), it won't take long to realize that diversity for the first purpose is likely to remain despite the ascendance of future waves of monocultural ethnocentrism. Diversity for the second purpose is likely to be washed away, taking down even many of us hired for our skills.
@lain "replaces Twitter" --> suffers from insane user-growth, necessitating VC funding and public stock issuance, with consequent need to turn a profit.
I care enough that I don't want VC funding and its related ills.
It is bad enough that some fediverse devs already feel the need to cater to their funders.