So what we expected finally happened.
Reddit quarantined (and might soon ban) the most active communist subreddit, and one of the very few non-western-supremacist ones left.
We’ve gotten dozens of new applications, and are approving them as quickly as we can.
Here are a few Lemmy mobile apps for Android and iOS, if you prefer using those over the web app.
If you have any questions, or if there’s anything we can help with, new ideas or communities, or anything that can make the transition away from stormfront easier, let us on the mod team know.
Reddit, Silicon valley, surveillance capitalism, bourgeois media, down with them!
hey ^ ^ sad that we can no longer be rent-free in reddit’s head but happy to be here. not surprised to see that a sub like gzd gets quarantined but all the hate subs are free to continue spreading their shit
/r/theredpill and /r/conspiracy come to mind.
Honestly I was waiting for this happen as the lurker I was for the past year, because I didn’t want to post on Reddit anymore. thank you mods and people who worked to build this lemmy instance a long time ago so we could bounce back quickly.
Why did everyone leave :/
they may return one day
Hope so, those early days right after GenZedong got quarantined and everyone moved to lemmygrad seemed to be the most active.
I am so glad to be here and accepted in this community. As long as we’re together, it doesn’t matter where we are! And people will look back and wonder why some of us stayed on ‘reddit’ or any other top major platform owned by a huge corporation. I love all of you and I am so relieved that we have active spaces for us.
So this is Lemmygrad, huh? Nice. Where’s the bathrooms?
right here
Just FYI, we have anecdotal reports from people on Hexbear that Twitter and Facebook have also been wiping out and censoring leftist accounts/pages since yesterday. This is how it happens. They come in waves and seem to like getting it done in one big batch
I’m gonna miss Communist Party of Facebook
Facebook is even worse than Reddit imo.
Twitter and Facebook have also been wiping out and censoring leftist accounts/pages since yesterday.
It’s a good thing that mastodon exists.
Maybe we lost GenZedong, but we truly arrived to paradise. Finally a place to discuss properly
Pretty insane what lengths they’ll go to protect Nazis
pretty on-brand for reddit though
we need hexbear emojis in lemmy so bad
still do lol
Ngl this feels like it’s gonna be better then reddit.
Thx!
Well, that was a blast while it lasted.
Who would have thought we’d be toppled by Nato sanctions…!?
Lmao, it’s essentially what happened.
Yeah, quarantine is literally part of the toolbox for sanctioning certain types of attention for a given subreddit. They take that “attention is currency” stuff real seriously. Simulate a market by lending moderators attention from your users. Those simulations automate the process of creating and maintaining influencers and “communities”, which ideally maximizes the amount of attention you continue to engage with and give them. They’re rigging a market they control and if it starts to go bad for them they just cut you off.
I actually joined ages ago, but man this place moved slowly. Maybe faster now?
As a former r/CTH poster and hexbear head, welcome to the club! 🍻 Having the rug pulled like this is truly chaotic, but it’s good news that y’all already have a backup ready and don’t have to do a month long hackathon while putting out constant fires in a 10,000 member Discord lifeboat. While the new website is nowhere near as busy as the former subreddit, the independence of having our own infrastructure developed and maintained by trusted comrades is worth it. At the end of the day, Reddit set us free.
I’m hoping things go as smoothly as possible for y’all. Also, Madeline Albright is dead! Let’s fucking go!
Good to see you here, Porkroll! This stuff’s come a long way
Hey comrades! I was a lurker and a learner on r/GenZedong for the past few months, I’m looking forward to hanging out here with you guys! (Hopefully I will be less shy this time)
you seem to be shy lol
No probs, welcome!
Welcome
hello to all the lemmings lmao
I know the name wasn’t chosen with that in mind, but I see it as being pretty ironic and funny for two reasons:
- Redditors think they’re unique free-thinkers, and aren’t duped by their own media, unlike those lemmings.
- Lemmings the animal don’t actually walk off cliffs like the video game, so that’s kinda highlighting propaganda in itself.
#accidentally_accurate lol
Kia ora, greetings from Aotearoa! I knew it was only a matter of time before it got taken down x
Tēnā koe!
came here after reddit banned the sub and this site already way better than reddit