Indymedia had a collection of global mailing lists, run using private mailservers with no logs, and a private (encrypted) IRC server (with a web interface, and also with no logs). Nearly everyone in Indymedia operated under a pseudonym. But over the course of the noughties, most activists moved over to Faceache.

I never understood why activists would adopt pseudonyms, but refuse to use the (relatively) secure communication channels we provided, in favour of Twat and Faceache. Being involved with Indymedia was risky - it was infiltrated by undercover cops, and some of the people posting to the newswire were probably involved in criminal acts (e.g. criminal damage).