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Lemmygrad | |
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 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 | |
| Type | Forum, news aggregator |
| Founded | 17 August, 2019 communism.lemmy.ml |
| Founder | Dessalines |
| Key people | Dessalines, Farmer Heck, CriticalResist, Forte and others |
| Users | 9,530 registered users (~100 online at a time) |
| URL | lemmygrad.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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
| 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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
11% of users have physical disabilities, and 36% have diagnosed mental disabilities.[18]
Gender and sexuality[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ @muad_dibber. "Lemmygrad mod team statement on "patriotic socialism"" Lemmygrad: Communism. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
- ↑ @TheAnonymouseJoker. "URGENT REMINDER THAT THIS HAS BEEN CREATED. BEWARE." Lemmygrad. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
- ↑ @CriticalResist8. "2 new rules added to the sidebar" Announcements. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
- ↑ CARCOSA (2023-07-28). "Upcoming Federation" Hexbear. Archived from the original on 2023-07-29. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
- ↑ @lwadmin (2023-08-03). "Lemmy.world Hexbear Statement" Lemmy.world. Archived from the original on 2023-08-05.
- ↑ Lemmygrad. Archived from the original.
- ↑ "Stats for Lemmy". Fediverse Observer. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
- ↑ Kevin Reed (2020-07-02). "Reddit bans 2,000 communities in major censorship action" WSWS.
- ↑ @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.
- ↑ "2023 demographics survey results in the link!". lemmygrad.ml.
- ↑ 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[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Currently known as Muad'Dibber and Black Tulip, respectively, on Lemmygrad.