Gonna sticky it for now because there is an influx of new users here because of the ban.
Welcome to everyone reading this and to everyone already applied. For those who do the application and are now lurking: don't worry if it takes a little bit of time to be approved.
Fuck Reddit.
On censorship:
Communists are not scared of censorship. To capitulate to the censors is to admit from the start that we don't believe in our own theory. It's opportunistic, because it leads one to the depths of liberalism. After all if one is scared of being censored for being a communist, then the only solution is to toe the line and you might as well become a democrat if you're scared of saying anything that could get you banned from any big platform.
The solution is to take control of our own tools, and build dual power. And I don't mean this online specifically, I mean in every aspect of life. Many parties today make the mistake of capitulating to censorship before they are even censored, because they're scared. Then they become reformist parties, indistinguishable from liberals, diluting theory to become socially acceptable and palatable as the material conditions continue dwindling around us. Anything to get on TV.
Places such as Lemmygrad allow us to congregate, talk and have a community. But more than that, they also allow us to share knowledge and theory and learn from each other. The solution is to have both self-owned platforms and continue the struggle outside of our bubbles too. It's not all one or the other, it's both.
Lemmygrad can't be banned - first of all it's all federated. Even if lemmygrad stopped existing, every post that's federated on the dozens of instance we are linked with would still be up. You can't take down the federated web unless you take down every single federated website. Moreover, lemmygrad is self-hosted. Being self-hosted, the website can also be brought back very quickly. This is the case for any self-hosted website if you run daily backups like you should be doing anyway.
And….so now I’m here. Hi comrades.
Breaking no-violence-against-whites rules I'm guessing?
I have been expecting this for a while now but it's a bit surreal to see it actually happen. r/TheDeprogram played an important role in my radicalization and introduced me to Lemmygrad for the first time. I never actually posted there but I have been a lurker for a long time and so I'm going to miss it. Hopefully this leads to an influx of new Lemmygrad users, I guess now the only political subreddit I'm going to browse is r/ShitLiberalsSay although Reddit will probably come for it as well soon.
👈 It's afraid.
This is our 9/11
That’s okay! Bring all those comrades to Lemmy. Let the liberal redditors cry
Anyone still using reddit is an absolute clown
Wow, I wasn't an active poster or commenter there, but the writing on the wall really made me decide to finally move to Lemmy.
Greetings comrades!
(photo is how I'll feel when I'm arrested for Marxist-Leninist memes)
Man, this is some bull shit how can these zionist scum keep posting about Israel and its genocidal rhetoric and the deprogram get banned. Shit ain't right
hello comrades. crazy times. can't believe r/TheDeprogram got banned
First as a tragedy then as a farce
We gotta do a massive recruitment campaign on Reddit
Welcome home comrades!
Glad I deleted Reddit
Never let a crisis go to waste, they always say.
I'd be telling people to move to Lemmy in starwarscommiememes or other communities banning kirkposting for fear of getting banned, but I was enjoying myself a little too much yesterday
Im shocked it lasted as long as it did
Hello new peps 👋👋👋
Welcome comrades!
Well, I sure didn't expect this post to get stickied.
Well then again, I didn't expect myself to become an active member of a smallish communist internet forum either.
just like r/chapotraphouse and r/genzedong that sub was kinda like baby's first leftist space so there were a lot of people on there who were maybe a little too excited to celebrate yesterday's events (honestly some of it seemed like borderline fedposting). I knew it was a matter of time until the sub got banned.
I wondered how long it would take.. With that being said, welcome home new comrades! Let's discuss food sometime!
How is lemmygrads hosting situation? If we get a big flood of new active users are we good, or could we hit capacity?
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