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Lemmygrad is a communist, Marxist-Leninist social media platform founded in August 2019.^[1] Lemmygrad is based on Lemmy.

Lemmygrad was developed by comrades dessalines and nutomic, and is run by a collection of communists from around the world. It has over 34,000 posts and over 360 active users.^[2]

History

Lemmygrad was the second Lemmy instance created, after lemmy.ml.^[3] Lemmygrad's mission statement is to create a proletarian owned-and-controlled social media platform, that exists outside the control and jurisdiction of US tech companies. Lemmy shares a similar mission statement;^[4]

/r/GenZedong Immigration

In March 2022, /r/GenZedong was quarantined by Reddit, which resulted in GenZedong users migrating to Lemmygrad to keep the community solvent.^[5] After Reddit banned and removed /r/GenZhou, an educational companion subreddit to /r/GenZedong, Lemmygrad users resurrected an archive of it at /c/genzhouarchive.^[6]

April 2022 DDoS Attack

In April 2022, liberals organized a series of Distributed Denial of Service attacks against Lemmygrad.^[7]

User Demographic

Lemmygrad's user demographic has been growing steadily as Reddit continues to censor Marxist and communist communities,^[8] and as racist attacks against Chinese and Russian users increase.

External sources

References

↑ Lemmygrad's first post dated 17 August 2019. Link
↑ Lemmygrad. Archived from the original on 2022-08-02. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
↑ Lemmy instance website
↑ About Lemmy
↑ Muad'Dibber. Welcome /r/GenZedong Refugees!. Genzedong: Lemmygrad.
↑ https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhouarchive
↑ 陈卫华是我的英雄 (2022-03-26). "We're getting DDOSed lmao" GenZedong. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
↑ Kevin Reed (2020-07-02). "Reddit bans 2,000 communities in major censorship action" WSWS.

Notes

[1] Lemmygrad's first post dated 17 August 2019. Link

[2] Lemmygrad. Archived from the original on 2022-08-02. Retrieved 2022-08-30.

[3] Lemmy instance website

[4] About Lemmy

[5] Muad'Dibber. Welcome /r/GenZedong Refugees!. Genzedong: Lemmygrad.

[6] ttps://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhouarchive

[7] 陈卫华是我的英雄 (2022-03-26). "We're getting DDOSed lmao" GenZedong. Retrieved 2022-04-15.

[8] Kevin Reed (2020-07-02). "Reddit bans 2,000 communities in major censorship action" WSWS.

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-'''Lemmygrad''' is a [[Communism|communist]], [[Marxism-leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] social media platform founded in August 2019.<ref>Lemmygrad's first post dated 17 August 2019. [https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1 Link]</ref> It is built on Lemmy;<ref>[https://join-lemmy.org Lemmy software website]</ref> a [[Free and open-source software|FOSS]], federated,<ref group=lower-alpha>Lemmy supports federation through [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub ActivityPub]</ref> alternative to [[Reddit]].
+'''Lemmygrad''' is a [[Communism|communist]], [[Marxism-leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] social media platform founded in August 2019.<ref>Lemmygrad's first post dated 17 August 2019. [https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1 Link]</ref> Lemmygrad is based on [[Lemmy]].
 Lemmygrad was developed by comrades ''[[User:Dessalines|dessalines]]'' and ''nutomic,'' and is run by a collection of communists from around the world. 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>