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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 proletarian owned | 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> | ||
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In March 2022, [[GenZedong (subreddit)| | 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, liberals organized a series of | 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> | ||
==User | === Lemmygrad.com === | ||
In September 2022, [[MAGACommunism|MAGA communists]] created an impostor instance of Lemmygrad 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> | |||
==User demographics== | |||
Lemmygrad's user demographic 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 racist attacks against [[People's Republic of China|Chinese]] and [[Russian Federation|Russian]] users increase. | Lemmygrad's user demographic 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 racist attacks against [[People's Republic of China|Chinese]] and [[Russian Federation|Russian]] users increase. | ||
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== References == | == References == | ||
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[[Category:Online communities]] | [[Category:Online communities]] | ||
[[Category:Alternative social media platforms]] | [[Category:Alternative social media platforms]] | ||
Revision as of 23:54, 25 November 2022
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, Reddit quarantined r/GenZedong, 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]
DDoS attack
In April 2022, liberals organized a series of distributed denial of service attacks against Lemmygrad.[7]
Lemmygrad.com
In September 2022, MAGA communists created an impostor instance of Lemmygrad called lemmygrad.com.[8]
User demographics
Lemmygrad's user demographic has been growing steadily as Reddit continues to censor Marxist and communist communities,[9] 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.
- ↑ @TheAnonymouseJoker. "URGENT REMINDER THAT THIS HAS BEEN CREATED. BEWARE." Lemmygrad. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
- ↑ Kevin Reed (2020-07-02). "Reddit bans 2,000 communities in major censorship action" WSWS.