Lemmygrad

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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
Users9,530 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] The attack led to infrequent server outages and the vulnerabilities used were ultimately patched a few days later.

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.[10]

Hexbear federation

In August 2023, Lemmygrad federated with Hexbear, another major leftist instance on Lemmy.[11] Lemmy.world, the largest Lemmy instance, blocked Hexbear and has threatened to defederate from Lemmygrad.[12]

User demographics

Number of active users (month) on Lemmygrad[13][14]
Date (DMY) Lemmygrad Total Lemmy Percentage of Lemmy users on Lemmygrad
01-12-22 358 1,256 28.5%
02-02-23 317 1,041 30.5%
03-03-23 299 1,076 27.8%
02-04-23 292 1,045 27.9%
02-05-23 275 1,050 26.2%
01-06-23 267 1,333 20.0%
01-07-23 688 52,464 1.31%
01-08-23 658 65,535 1.00%
01-09-23 604 49,511 1.22%

Lemmygrad's user base has been growing steadily as Reddit continues to censor Marxist and communist communities[15] 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 a mass migration to Lemmy, including Lemmygrad.[16]

In June 2023, Lemmygrad ran its first ever demographics survey with a sample size of 301 respondents (around 85% of the site's active users at the time.[17] Only 38.7% of users are straight white cis males.[18]

Age

Most users are young, with 7% under 18, 32% between 18 and 24, and 45% between 25 and 34. Only one user is aged 65 or older.[18]

Class and employment

61% of users are proletarians (83.8% if labor aristocracy is also included). 7% are petty-bourgeois, and 7% are lumpenproletarians. 55% of users are employed, mostly in full-time jobs (43.1% of the total), 16% are unemployed or unable to work, and 27.6% are students.[18]

Disability

11% of users have physical disabilities, and 36% have diagnosed mental disabilities.[18]

Gender and sexuality

Only 52% of users are straight, followed by 18% bisexual, 6.7% gay, 6.7% pansexual, and 5.7% asexual. 71% of users are cis males, 9.3% are transgender females, 7.6% are nonbinary, 4% are cis females, and 1% are trans males.[18]

Language

73% of users are multilingual, with 30% of total users speaking at least three languages, 9.3% speaking at least four, and 3% speaking five or more. 27% only speak one language.[18]

Location

40% of users are from the USA or Canada, followed by 21% from Western Europe, 12% from Eastern Europe, 6.75% from South America, 7.3% from Asia, and 2.7% from Africa.[18]

Race and ethnicity

65.7% of users identified as white, 11.5% as Asian (including 3.7% South Asian and 2.36% East Asian), 6.73% as Hispanic or Latino, and 4% as multiracial.[18]

Religion

60% of users are atheists, in addition to 12% agnostic. 9.73% are Christians, and Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism are each about 2%.[18]

External sources

References

  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. ↑ CARCOSA (2023-07-28). "Upcoming Federation" Hexbear. Archived from the original on 2023-07-29. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
  12. ↑ @lwadmin (2023-08-03). "Lemmy.world Hexbear Statement" Lemmy.world. Archived from the original on 2023-08-05.
  13. ↑ Lemmygrad. Archived from the original.
  14. ↑ "Stats for Lemmy". Fediverse Observer. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
  15. ↑ Kevin Reed (2020-07-02). "Reddit bans 2,000 communities in major censorship action" WSWS.
  16. ↑ @CriticalResist8 (2023-05-31). "Please note Lemmygrad is a Marxist instance (principally Marxist-Leninist)!" Lemmygrad: Announcements. Archived from the original on 2023-06-08. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
  17. ↑ "2023 demographics survey results in the link!". lemmygrad.ml.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 18.5 18.6 18.7 18.8 CriticalResist. "2023 demographics survey results" Archived from the original on 2023-06-14. Retrieved 2023-06-15.

Notes

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