Lemmygrad is a communist, Marxist-Leninist social media platform founded in August 2019.[1] It is built on Lemmy;[2] a FOSS, federated,[a] 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.[3]
History
Lemmygrad was the second Lemmy instance created, after lemmy.ml.[4] 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;[5]
/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.[6] After Reddit banned and removed /r/GenZhou, an educational companion subreddit to /r/GenZedong, Lemmygrad users resurrected an archive of it at /c/genzhouarchive.[7]
April 2022 DDoS Attack
In April 2022, liberals organized a series of Distributed Denial of Service attacks against Lemmygrad.[8]
User Demographic
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
- ↑ Lemmy software website
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Lemmy supports federation through ActivityPub