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

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      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)

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        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

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                  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.

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                  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.

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                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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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        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.

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          Well there are different degrees of how left you are, liking the CCP and the DPRK is too much for most, even communists

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            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.

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              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.

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                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.

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              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

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                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.

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                  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

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                  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

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    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 😎

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    It doesn’t matter. The more people who use Lemmy, the more people will inevitably find Lemmygrad posts

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      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

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      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.