I use Telegram to speak to one of my best friends who moved to Russia before the “special military operation” as we cannot communicate via most other mainstream (western) platforms and I know refugees who use it to communicate with relatives and so on in other parts of the world which I wont mention, so I would say that some good does/can come from it if it is used for certain purposes.
It is also good for getting on the ground news from Palestine and other places (Yemen, Syria, Iraq, statements from the PFLP, Kurdish groups, Irish Republican news and non-Marxist-Leninist groups involved in active resistance in the ME such as Hezbollah and certain Shia brigades who are fighting/assisting Palestine). But for the most part it is a political cess pit, at least in terms of western representation as well as reactionary/openly fascist elements in western and eastern Europe who make use of it although I have never looked at those channels and wouldn’t. Aside from the ones I have mentioned, the only ones I have looked at are nominally “communist” and most of them support “MAGA communism” and seem to be run by the CPGB-ML.
With no adequate party and with a fragmented, impotent left in the real world where I am but especially in the USA which dominates the digital landscape, it is hard to find spaces online to speak with genuine comrades and have decent, helpful, respectful discussions etc.
edit: Although to be fair I cannot speak to the parties in the USA. In the UK the “ML” parties are a joke/run by spooks and Trots are generally more visible, have higher numbers and this has especially been the case since the Comintern splits over revisionism, also due in large part to their entryist tactics in relation to the Labour Party in the last century. Now the left is fragmented but class consciousness has developed over the years and this is why I asked this question, due to the prospect of naive, new potential comrades falling for the traps set by these reactionaries masquerading as communists, rendering them impotent at best and at worst, at the service of emerging fascism. They might come across the CPGB-ML and join without understanding what’s going on and what they are really about, because they have “communist” and “ML” in their name - I started out as a Trot due to being fledgling when it came to theory - and it is our duty as communists to warn prospective comrades about what groups really stand for, again, hence this thread.
With all due respect, your replies haven’t been useful and I don’t think you’ve really read much of what I’ve said, or have at least only seen/understood it through a narrow USA-formed lens. “MAGA communism” only appeared to me in a “serious” way the day before I made an account here. Before that it was described on Twitter as a terminally online cult with no real world support and didn’t seem to be taken seriously - not everyone is aware of the nuances and intricacies of the online US-left, especially outside of the USA… Seeing “MAGA communism” suddenly being promoted in Britain by the CPGB-ML was a shock and is worrying for reasons I’ve mentioned, hence why I came here to ask.
Maybe this should’ve gone into a different community where it could be discussed properly.