Editing Lemmygrad

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| logo = File:Lemmygrad.png
| logo_size = 200px
| logo_alt =
| logo_caption = The logo of Lemmygrad, featuring a tank, a reference to the slur "[[tankie]]", and wheat emblem, historically a communist symbol
| screenshot = File:Lemmygrad frontpage 2023-01-19.png
| screenshot_size = 200px
| screenshot_alt =
| screenshot_caption = Main page of Lemmygrad in January 2023
| type = Forum, news aggregator
| founding_name =
| founding_date = 17 August, 2019
| founding_website = communism.lemmy.ml
| founded = 
| founder = [[Comrade:Dessalines|Dessalines]]
| key_people = [[Comrade:Dessalines|Dessalines]], [[Comrade:Farmer Heck|Farmer Heck]], [[Comrade:CriticalResist|CriticalResist]], [[Comrade:Forte|Forte]] and others  
| num_users = 9,530 registered users (~100 online at a time)
| after_header = Flag
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| url = [https://lemmygrad.ml lemmygrad.ml]
| footnotes = 
}}
'''Lemmygrad''' is a [[Communism|communist]], [[Marxism-leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] [[Alternative social media platforms|social media platform]] founded in August 2019.<ref name=":0">Lemmygrad's first post dated 17 August 2019. [https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1 Link]</ref> Lemmygrad is based on [[Lemmy]].

Lemmygrad was created by [[User:Dessalines|dessalines]] and [[Comrade:Farmer Heck|Farmer Heck]]''.<ref group="lower-alpha">Currently known as [https://lemmygrad.ml/u/muad_dibber Muad'Dibber] and [https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Farmer_Heck Black Tulip], respectively, on Lemmygrad.</ref>'' It has over 34,000 posts and over 360 active users.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Lemmygrad|url=https://lemmygrad.ml/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220802014902/https://lemmygrad.ml/|archive-date=2022-08-02|retrieved=2022-08-30}}</ref> 

==History==

Lemmygrad was the second Lemmy instance created, after lemmy.ml.<ref>[https://lemmy.ml Lemmy instance website]</ref> Lemmygrad's mission statement is to create a [[Proletariat|proletarian]]-owned and controlled [[social media]] platform that exists outside the control and jurisdiction of [[United States of America|US]] tech companies. Lemmy shares a similar mission statement.<ref>[https://join-lemmy.org/about About Lemmy]</ref>

===r/GenZedong immigration===

In March 2022, [[Reddit]] quarantined [[GenZedong (subreddit)|r/GenZedong]], which resulted in GenZedong users migrating to Lemmygrad to keep the community solvent.<ref>{{Citation|title-url=https://lemmygrad.ml/post/156912|title=Welcome /r/GenZedong Refugees!|author=Muad'Dibber|publisher=Lemmygrad|city=Genzedong}}</ref> After Reddit banned and removed [[GenZhou|r/GenZhou]], an educational companion subreddit to r/GenZedong, Lemmygrad users resurrected an archive of it at /c/genzhouarchive.<ref>https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhouarchive</ref>

===DDoS attack===

In April 2022, [[Liberalism|liberals]] organized a series of distributed denial of service attacks against Lemmygrad.<ref>{{News citation|author=陈卫华是我的英雄|newspaper=GenZedong|title=We're getting DDOSed lmao|date=2022-03-26|url=https://lemmygrad.ml/post/175422|retrieved=2022-04-15}}</ref> The attack led to infrequent server outages and the vulnerabilities used were ultimately patched a few days later.

===Purge of patriotic socialists===
In July 2022, the moderators of Lemmygrad made a joint statement banning [[patriotic socialism]] and support for [[settler colonialism]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=@muad_dibber|newspaper=Lemmygrad: Communism|title=Lemmygrad mod team statement on "patriotic socialism"|url=https://lemmygrad.ml/post/300839|retrieved=2023-01-18}}</ref> In September 2022, [[MAGACommunism|MAGA communists]] banned from Lemmygrad created an impostor instance called lemmygrad.com.<ref>{{Web citation|author=@TheAnonymouseJoker|newspaper=Lemmygrad|title=URGENT REMINDER THAT THIS HAS BEEN CREATED. BEWARE.|url=https://lemmygrad.ml/post/388618|retrieved=2022-11-25}}</ref>

=== New rules ===
In September 2022, Lemmygrad adopted two new rules banning sexual content and [[Right-opportunism|right-deviationists]] (MAGA communists, [[National Bolshevism|nazbols]], etc.). While the moderators were already following these rules in practice, the announcement formalized Lemmygrad's stance.<ref>{{Web citation|author=@CriticalResist8|newspaper=Announcements|title=2 new rules added to the sidebar|url=https://lemmygrad.ml/post/379908|retrieved=2022-03-27}}</ref>

=== Hexbear federation ===
In August 2023, Lemmygrad federated with [[Hexbear]], another major leftist instance on Lemmy.<ref>{{Web citation|author=CARCOSA|newspaper=Hexbear|title=Upcoming Federation|date=2023-07-28|url=https://hexbear.net/post/280770|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230729025945/https://hexbear.net/post/280770|archive-date=2023-07-29|retrieved=2023-08-07}}</ref> Lemmy.world, the largest Lemmy instance, blocked Hexbear and has threatened to defederate from Lemmygrad.<ref>{{Web citation|author=@lwadmin|newspaper=Lemmy.world|title=Lemmy.world Hexbear Statement|date=2023-08-03|url=https://lemmy.world/post/2498330|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230805200159/https://lemmy.world/post/2498330|archive-date=2023-08-05}}</ref>

==User demographics==
{| class="wikitable"
|+Number of active users (month) on Lemmygrad<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Lemmygrad|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://lemmygrad.ml/}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Fediverse Observer|title=Stats for Lemmy|url=https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=300|retrieved=2023-07-23}}</ref>
!Date (DMY)
!Lemmygrad
!Total Lemmy
!Percentage of Lemmy users on Lemmygrad
|-
|01-12-22
|358
|1,256
|28.5%
|-
|02-02-23
|317
|1,041
|30.5%
|-
|03-03-23
|299
|1,076
|27.8%
|-
|02-04-23
|292
|1,045
|27.9%
|-
|02-05-23
|275
|1,050
|26.2%
|-
|01-06-23
|267
|1,333
|20.0%
|-
|01-07-23
|688
|52,464
|1.31%
|-
|01-08-23
|658
|65,535
|1.00%
|-
|01-09-23
|604
|49,511
|1.22%
|}
Lemmygrad's user base has been growing steadily as Reddit continues to censor [[Marxism|Marxist]] and communist communities<ref>{{News citation|newspaper=[[WSWS]]|title=Reddit bans 2,000 communities in major censorship action|date=2020-07-02|url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/02/redd-j02.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|retrieved=|journalist=Kevin Reed}}</ref> and as [[Racism|racist]] attacks against [[People's Republic of China|Chinese]] and [[Russian Federation|Russian]] users increase.

In May 2023, Reddit greatly increased its API pricing, making many third party apps collapse and causing a mass migration to Lemmy, including Lemmygrad.<ref>{{Web citation|author=@CriticalResist8|newspaper=Lemmygrad: Announcements|title=Please note Lemmygrad is a Marxist instance (principally Marxist-Leninist)!|date=2023-05-31|url=https://lemmygrad.ml/post/668436|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608014753/https://lemmygrad.ml/post/668436|archive-date=2023-06-08|retrieved=2023-06-15}}</ref>

In June 2023, Lemmygrad ran its first ever demographics survey with a sample size of 301 respondents (around 85% of the site's active users at the time.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=lemmygrad.ml|title=2023 demographics survey results in the link!|url=https://lemmygrad.ml/post/723191}}</ref> Only 38.7% of users are straight white cis males.<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|author=CriticalResist|title=2023 demographics survey results|url=https://pastes.io/07p5nd9dxc|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230614031926/https://pastes.io/07p5nd9dxc|archive-date=2023-06-14|retrieved=2023-06-15}}</ref>

=== Age ===
Most users are young, with 7% under 18, 32% between 18 and 24, and 45% between 25 and 34. Only one user is aged 65 or older.<ref name=":1" />

=== Class and employment ===
61% of users are [[Proletariat|proletarians]] (83.8% if [[labor aristocracy]] is also included). 7% are [[Petty bourgeoisie|petty-bourgeois]], and 7% are [[Lumpenproletariat|lumpenproletarians]]. 55% of users are employed, mostly in full-time jobs (43.1% of the total), 16% are [[Unemployment|unemployed]] or unable to work, and 27.6% are students.<ref name=":1" />

=== Disability ===
11% of users have physical disabilities, and 60.8% have mental disabilities.<ref name=":1" />

=== Gender and sexuality ===
Only 52% of users are straight, followed by 18% bisexual, 6.7% gay, 6.7% pansexual, and 5.7% asexual. 71% of users are cis males, 9.3% are transgender females, 7.6% are nonbinary, 4% are cis females, and 1% are trans males.<ref name=":1" />

=== Language ===
73% of users are multilingual, with 30% of total users speaking at least three languages, 9.3% speaking at least four, and 3% speaking five or more. 27% only speak one language.<ref name=":1" />

=== Location ===
40% of users are from the USA or [[Canada]], followed by 21% from Western Europe, 12% from [[Eastern Europe]], 6.75% from [[South America]], 7.3% from Asia, and 2.7% from Africa.<ref name=":1" />

=== Race and ethnicity ===
65.7% of users identified as white, 11.5% as Asian (including 3.7% South Asian and 2.36% East Asian), 6.73% as Hispanic or Latino, and 4% as multiracial.<ref name=":1" />

=== Religion ===
60% of users are [[Atheism|atheists]], in addition to 12% agnostic. 9.73% are [[Christianity|Christians]], and [[Buddhism]], [[Hinduism]], [[Islam]], and [[Judaism]] are each about 2%.<ref name=":1" />

==External sources==
*[https://lemmygrad.ml/ Lemmygrad website]
*[https://join-lemmy.org Website for the Lemmy project.]
==References==
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=== Notes ===
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[[Category:Online communities]]
[[Category:Alternative social media platforms]]
[[Category:Online left]]
[[Category:Targets of censorship]]