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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
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
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
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
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
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
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]
R/TheDeprogram migration
In September 2025, the unofficial subreddit for The Deprogram was banned from Reddit without prior warning.[13] In the hours following the ban and thanks to posts made on subreddits overlapping with the deprogram, an influx of new users came to Lemmygrad. In the wake of the ban, other subreddits have also considered Lemmygrad to recreate their communities there, expecting their subreddits to be banned as well.
User demographics
| 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[16] 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.[17]
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.[18] Only 38.7% of users are straight white cis males.[19]
Age
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.[19]
Class and employment
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.[19]
Disability
11% of users have physical disabilities, and 36% have diagnosed mental disabilities.[19]
Gender and sexuality
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.[19]
Language
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.[19]
Location
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.[19]
Race and ethnicity
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.[19]
Religion
60% of users are atheists, in addition to 12% agnostic. 9.73% are Christians, and Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism are each about 2%.[19]
External sources
References
- ↑ Lemmygrad's first post dated 17 August 2019. Link
- ↑ Lua error: Cannot create process: proc_open(/dev/null): Failed to open stream: Operation not permitted
- ↑ Lemmy instance website
- ↑ About Lemmy
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- ↑ https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhouarchive
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- ↑ https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9092730
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- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 19.5 19.6 19.7 19.8 Lua error: Cannot create process: proc_open(/dev/null): Failed to open stream: Operation not permitted
Notes
- ↑ Currently known as Muad'Dibber and Black Tulip, respectively, on Lemmygrad.