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. It has over 34,000 posts and over 360 active users.[4]
Lemmygrad was the second Lemmy instance created, after lemmy.ml.[5] Its mission statement closely matches that of the the Lemmy software;[6] to create a proletarian owned-and-controlled social media platform, that exists outside the control and jurisdiction of US tech companies.
Its user base been growing steadily as Reddit continues to censor Marxist and communist communities,[7] and as racist attacks against Chinese and Russian users increase.
In 2022, /r/GenZedong was quarantined by Reddit, which resulted in a migration to Lemmygrad to keep the community solvent.[8] After Reddit banned and removed /r/GenZhou, an educational companion subreddit to /r/GenZedong, Lemmygrad users resurrected an archive of it at /c/genzhouarchive.[9]
Liberals have organized DDoS attacks against Lemmgrad.[10]
External sources
References
- ↑ Lemmygrad's first post dated 17 August 2019. Link
- ↑ Lemmy software website
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub
- ↑ Lemmygrad. Archived from the original on 2022-08-02. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
- ↑ Lemmy instance website
- ↑ About Lemmy
- ↑ Kevin Reed (2020-07-02). "Reddit bans 2,000 communities in major censorship action" WSWS.
- ↑ 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.