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'''Lemmygrad''' is a [[Communism|pro-communism]] social media platform which was 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.ml</ref> which is a [[Free and open-source software|FOSS]] alternative to Reddit. It's currently developed by comrades ''[[User:Dessalines|dessalines]]'' and ''nutomic.'' Its user base been growing steadily as Reddit continues to censor [[Marxism|marxist]] and communist communities.<ref>{{News citation|journalist=Kevin Reed|date=2020-07-02|title=Reddit bans 2,000 communities in major censorship action|url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/02/redd-j02.html|newspaper=[[WSWS]]|archive-url=|archive-date=|retrieved=}}</ref>
'''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</ref> which is a [[Free and open-source software|FOSS]], federated<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub</ref>, alternative to Reddit. Lemmygrad was developed by comrades ''[[User:Dessalines|dessalines]]'' and ''nutomic,'' and is run by a collection of communists from around the world.  


In 2022, [[GenZedong (subreddit)|GenZedong]] was quarantined by Reddit, which resulted in a migration to Lemmygrad to keep the community solvent.<ref>[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/156912 Welcome /r/GenZedong Refugees!] on Lemmygrad</ref>  
Lemmygrad was the second Lemmy server created, after lemmy.ml<ref><nowiki>https://lemmy.ml</nowiki></ref>. Its mission statement closely matches that of the the Lemmy software<ref>https://join-lemmy.org/about</ref>; to create a proletarian owned-and-controlled social media platform, that exists outside the control of US tech companies.
 
Its user base 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 racist attacks against Chinese and Russian users increase.
 
In 2022, [[GenZedong (subreddit)|GenZedong]] was quarantined by Reddit, which resulted in a migration to Lemmygrad to keep the community solvent.<ref>[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/156912 Welcome /r/GenZedong Refugees!] on Lemmygrad</ref> After Reddit banned and removed ''/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>.


== External sources ==
== External sources ==

Revision as of 15:17, 13 April 2022

Lemmygrad is a communist, Marxist-Leninist social media platform founded in August 2019.[1] It is built on Lemmy,[2] which is a FOSS, federated[3], alternative to Reddit. Lemmygrad was developed by comrades dessalines and nutomic, and is run by a collection of communists from around the world.

Lemmygrad was the second Lemmy server created, after lemmy.ml[4]. Its mission statement closely matches that of the the Lemmy software[5]; to create a proletarian owned-and-controlled social media platform, that exists outside the control of US tech companies.

Its user base been growing steadily as Reddit continues to censor Marxist and communist communities[6], and as racist attacks against Chinese and Russian users increase.

In 2022, GenZedong was quarantined by Reddit, which resulted in a migration to Lemmygrad to keep the community solvent.[7] After Reddit banned and removed /r/GenZhou, an educational companion subreddit to /r/GenZedong, Lemmygrad users resurrected an archive of it at /c/genzhouarchive[8].

External sources

Lemmygrad website

References