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'''Lemmygrad''' is a [[Communism|communist]], [[Marxism-leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] [[Alternative social media platforms|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''' 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>  
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>  
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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 [[Racism|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 [[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 mass migrations to Lemmygrad and Lemmy.ml.<ref name=":0" />


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

Revision as of 16:33, 15 June 2023

Lemmygrad
The logo of Lemmygrad, featuring a tank, a reference to the slur "tankie", and wheat emblem, historically a communist symbol
Main page of Lemmygrad in January 2023
TypeForum, news aggregator
Founded17 August, 2019
communism.lemmy.ml
FounderDessalines
Key peopleDessalines, Farmer Heck, CriticalResist, Forte and others
Users7.64K registered users (~100 online at a time)
URLlemmygrad.ml
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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 created by dessalines and Farmer Heck.[a] 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]

Purge of patriotic socialists

In July 2022, the moderators of Lemmygrad made a joint statement banning patriotic socialism and support for settler colonialism.[8] In September 2022, MAGA communists banned from Lemmygrad created an impostor instance called lemmygrad.com.[9]

New rules

In September 2022, Lemmygrad adopted two new rules banning sexual content and right-deviationists (MAGA communists, nazbols, etc.). While the moderators were already following these rules in practice, the announcement formalized Lemmygrad's stance on these issues.[10]

User demographics

Lemmygrad's user demographic has been growing steadily as Reddit continues to censor Marxist and communist communities,[11] and as racist attacks against Chinese and Russian users increase.

In May 2023, Reddit greatly increased its API pricing, making many third party apps collapse and causing mass migrations to Lemmygrad and Lemmy.ml.[1]

External sources

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 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. https://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. @muad_dibber. "Lemmygrad mod team statement on "patriotic socialism"" Lemmygrad: Communism. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
  9. @TheAnonymouseJoker. "URGENT REMINDER THAT THIS HAS BEEN CREATED. BEWARE." Lemmygrad. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
  10. @CriticalResist8. "2 new rules added to the sidebar" Announcements. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  11. Kevin Reed (2020-07-02). "Reddit bans 2,000 communities in major censorship action" WSWS.

Notes

  1. Currently known as Muad'Dibber and Black Tulip, respectively, on Lemmygrad.