Kind of amazing how many instances are blocking lemmygrad as soon as they’re created. I know that liberals really don’t like dissenting opinions but goddamn
Another thought, should I just make a lemmy.ml account?
I can see your post from here so you’re not being too heavily blocked. Some people maybe just have a kneejerk reaction to communist imagery/mentality (maybe bad experiences in various countries’ history, etc)
you can see me because lemmy doesnt have lemmygrad blocked, the 2 recommended general instances have lemmygrad blocked, and when browsing thru lemmy I see posts from people in other instances and like half of them already have lemmygrad blocked despite being pretty new
Which recommended general instances have lemmygrad blocked?
I meant on https://join-lemmy.org/instances, the 2 under recommended are sopuli.xyz and beehaw.org, both have lemmygrad blocked (beehaw doesnt even have the nazis blocked yet last I checked lmao)
Lemmy.one is new, and does as well
it’s just so weird they all claim we brigade but I go browse thru lemmy threads and we’re almost never in there
It’s a load of lies. We (= Lemmygradians) used to be more active on Lemmy, but to call that brigading is a stretch. This is federation, if you don’t want people to participate on other instances then you’re in the wrong place.
Beehaw originally claimed they blocked us because WE filled up their hard drive because we were so active and they had to rehost our comments and uploaded media. And then they realised they left the log files from the installation (which was also a bug, to be fair). Whoops.
They just don’t want to be exposed to communists. Beehaw claims to be a “chill” instance where like everyone is respectful and nice to each other but ask anyone here who interacted with a Beehaw user and “respectful” is not an adjective they will use. They like to post anti-communist memes, which I wouldn’t call chill and respectful. Beehaw is rabidly anti-communist, they will ban you for creating an account on their instance if you have an account on lemmygrad, even if you follow their rules and everything.
It has happened a bit before. When we first came over here not everyone understood federation and that lemmy.ml allows liberals. We’re pretty ideologically consistent (compared to liberals) so it can probably feel like ganging up to some people.
It’s still lame to block the whole instance, though.
Yeah it’s made by the “privacy” advocates on PrivacyGuides, in one of the posts there they outright deny Apple spying because “even the CIA cannot break into iPhones, so why would we trust the FSB”, it’s a charade.
Oh no the existence of communists having an instance is keeping people away from the project, why am I not suprised
No, it looks like Fedi.tips is driving people away from the software Lemmy, because they have ethical issues about not censoring Lemmygrad’s userbase and the devs’ ideology.
As it says on the homepage sidebar, lemmy.ml isn’t a flagship instance, and I’d expect better from an account calling itself Fedi.tips. They’ve just thrown Beehaw and sopuli.xyz and all the others in the same bucket.
True.
The ‘fediverse’ and all this talk of decentralization being great for leftist organization completely falls apart when the aspects most benefitted by decentralization is immediately delisted/blocked by libshits.
The way I see it, this isn’t really a step backwards. On the centralized platforms, our communities get banned and their ashes get scattered to the winds. On the fediverse, we get blacklisted by large instances operated by liberals, but our communities remain intact and can still network with one another directly. We are also protected from ideologically hostile admins quietly picking off our comrades one by one.
fr :( i like the fediverse but libs ruin it
I try to be positive. Even the libs on Lemmy are still better than the average redditor.
Libs ruin everything. lol. They have plagued every good leftist sub to ever exist. They pile in because the memes are funny but then they start screeching about “gommunism no food 10 trillion dead.” Eventually pushing out all the leftists that made the sub shine and turning it into an unfunny cesspit of liberal brain rot. Causing them to search out the next sub with good memes and content. Repeating the cycle endlessly. They are parasites. Nothing less.
shakes fist BEEHAW … and other instences in your vain that are painfully liberal, but they all feel almost exactly the same so ill just call them all part of the beehaw colony
Lol well beehaw is completely down right now, just completely flat on the ground dead, nothing is loading.
I know I’m beating a dead horse but I find it funny that beehaw claims they want to “help to connect underprivileged and minority individuals with education and civic participation by promoting a healthier online experience.”. Meanwhile all marginalised minorities flock to communism and lemmygrad and their admin team is white person, white person, and white person.
Well there are different degrees of how left you are, liking the CCP and the DPRK is too much for most, even communists
Between 75 and 90% of our users are a minority in some way: either in gender or sexual identity, skin colour or religion.
They have no problem liking the DPRK and CPC.
Beehaw isn’t even on the left, I’m not sure what you think communists are. They’re the well-intentioned liberals MLK was talking about.
I would be really interested if those are actual numbers. It seems like a bit too high, but shame there is basically no way to know for sure without some privacy issues.
We’ve never ran a website survey exactly for the privacy reason, but based on the active users on the site as well as account request answers, the very least amount of minorities on Lemmygrad is 50% of users. 75 seems more realistic though.
Anecdotally, it feels that way. It’s one of the great things about this place.
If liking communism is too much for communists then they might not be communists…
Everyone has limits, for some it’s concentration camps. It’s not something tribal where you have to support someone because they call themself communists. You can agree in principle but not in execution
I think the general consensus on this instance is that the actual execution isn’t the attrocity horror show that so many make it out to be: that capitalist dominance of media and education has either ridiculously distorted or outright fabricated many of the atrocities attributed to AES. This doesn’t mean people here like/support AES uncritically or unconditionally. However, the criticisms that will be levied against states/orgs here are going to be quite different from those of the more “libertarian” left.
I guess we disagree on that, I see no reason to make out some communist countries as hellholes (DPRK) while others like Cuba get a free pass. Other than that I consider DPRK leadership as more of a personal cult disguised with a communist state, and why communists would be compelled to defend that kind of stratification of society is beyond me
Where is your evidence of concentration camps, the ones in Xinjiang have been long sense debunked
I’m mostly talking about the ones in DPRK. The claimed Chinese ones are more like culture erasure camps, I don’t know how you guys feel about those
We don’t block anyone except instances that are purposely built to troll, or from which we’ve had trolls before (sometimes they’re left unmoderated) – but the latter we unblock if they contact us and took care of the spam
Communists stay on top 😎
Yeah, won’t be able to reach those types online, hence why real world praxis is necessary too.
Too true
It doesn’t matter. The more people who use Lemmy, the more people will inevitably find Lemmygrad posts
it’s more so just annoying having to check people’s handles to make sure I’m not wasting time writing a reply out that they won’t even see
Especially too when they have usernames that obscure the handle, and or it goes to an instance i have not heard of yet
This, when I first entered Lemmy just as an FOSS alternative to reddit, I also thought that those Lemmygrad people are taking things too far. Now I consider myself ML and really enjoy the community here.
