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<div>'''Lemmygrad''' is a [[Communism|communist]], [[Marxism-leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] social media platform founded in August 2019.<ref>Lemmygrad's first post dated 17 August 2019. [https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1 Link]</ref> It is built on Lemmy,<ref>https://join-lemmy.org</ref> which is a [[Free and open-source software|FOSS]], federated<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub</ref>, alternative to Reddit. Lemmygrad was developed by comrades ''[[User:Dessalines|dessalines]]'' and ''nutomic,'' and is run by a collection of communists from around the world. <br />
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Lemmygrad was the second Lemmy server created, after lemmy.ml<ref><nowiki>https://lemmy.ml</nowiki></ref>. Its mission statement closely matches that of the the Lemmy software<ref>https://join-lemmy.org/about</ref>; to create a proletarian owned-and-controlled social media platform, that exists outside the control and jurisdiction of US tech companies. <br />
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Its user base been growing steadily as Reddit continues to censor [[Marxism|Marxist]] and communist communities<ref>{{News citation|newspaper=[[WSWS]]|title=Reddit bans 2,000 communities in major censorship action|date=2020-07-02|url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/02/redd-j02.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|retrieved=|journalist=Kevin Reed}}</ref>, and as racist attacks against Chinese and Russian users increase. <br />
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In 2022, [[GenZedong (subreddit)|GenZedong]] was quarantined by Reddit, which resulted in a migration to Lemmygrad to keep the community solvent.<ref>[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/156912 Welcome /r/GenZedong Refugees!] on Lemmygrad</ref> After Reddit banned and removed ''/r/GenZhou'', an educational companion subreddit to /r/GenZedong, Lemmygrad users resurrected an archive of it at /c/genzhouarchive<ref>https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhouarchive</ref>. <br />
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== External sources ==<br />
[https://lemmygrad.ml/ Lemmygrad website]<br />
== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Online communities]]<br />
[[Category:Alternative social media platforms]]</div>Dessalineshttps://prole.wiki/w/index.php?title=Lemmygrad&diff=11257Lemmygrad2022-04-13T15:17:16Z<p>Dessalines: Added a few lines of history.</p>
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<div>'''Lemmygrad''' is a [[Communism|communist]], [[Marxism-leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] social media platform founded in August 2019.<ref>Lemmygrad's first post dated 17 August 2019. [https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1 Link]</ref> It is built on Lemmy,<ref>https://join-lemmy.org</ref> which is a [[Free and open-source software|FOSS]], federated<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub</ref>, alternative to Reddit. Lemmygrad was developed by comrades ''[[User:Dessalines|dessalines]]'' and ''nutomic,'' and is run by a collection of communists from around the world. <br />
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Lemmygrad was the second Lemmy server created, after lemmy.ml<ref><nowiki>https://lemmy.ml</nowiki></ref>. Its mission statement closely matches that of the the Lemmy software<ref>https://join-lemmy.org/about</ref>; to create a proletarian owned-and-controlled social media platform, that exists outside the control of US tech companies. <br />
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Its user base been growing steadily as Reddit continues to censor [[Marxism|Marxist]] and communist communities<ref>{{News citation|newspaper=[[WSWS]]|title=Reddit bans 2,000 communities in major censorship action|date=2020-07-02|url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/02/redd-j02.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|retrieved=|journalist=Kevin Reed}}</ref>, and as racist attacks against Chinese and Russian users increase. <br />
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In 2022, [[GenZedong (subreddit)|GenZedong]] was quarantined by Reddit, which resulted in a migration to Lemmygrad to keep the community solvent.<ref>[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/156912 Welcome /r/GenZedong Refugees!] on Lemmygrad</ref> After Reddit banned and removed ''/r/GenZhou'', an educational companion subreddit to /r/GenZedong, Lemmygrad users resurrected an archive of it at /c/genzhouarchive<ref>https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhouarchive</ref>. <br />
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== External sources ==<br />
[https://lemmygrad.ml/ Lemmygrad website]<br />
== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Online communities]]<br />
[[Category:Alternative social media platforms]]</div>Dessalines