Remember when we were at 50k on r*ddit?

    • RevolutionTodayV2@lemmygrad.ml
      27·
      2 years ago

      That sub has only one active mod and he’s pro NATO. He once told me “US hegemony is better than multipolarity” after banning me for bringing up azov.

      • Preston Maness ☭@lemmygrad.ml
        20·
        2 years ago

        That sub has only one active mod and he’s pro NATO. He once told me “US hegemony is better than multipolarity” after banning me for bringing up azov.

        So the one and only mod is a liberal. Great.

      • 陈卫华是我的英雄@lemmygrad.ml
        91·
        2 years ago

        No, no no. Even u/weedftw_69 has been banned; the other mods are basically inactive and almost every comment section is a Stalingrad-esque inescapable pit of internet carnage. THERE ARE NO LIBERAL MODS; THERE ARE NO MODS AT ALL

    • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
      17·
      2 years ago

      It’s rather difficult to get much engagement for such a thing, I only got at most one new person from an r/thedprogram post, I’m gonna try on r/newswithjingjing Edit: was it always this hard to post on Reddit? I try to post it, I can find no record of it, then when I try to post it again (in a slightly different way) it just says the link’s already been posted.

      • Arsen6331 ☭@lemmygrad.ml
        10·
        2 years ago

        That sounds like your posts are being removed by the spam filters. What happens if you copy the link and then open it in a private browser window? If you can see the title but not the content, that’s almost certainly what’s happening.

      • 陆船。@lemmygrad.ml
        101·
        2 years ago

        News with jingjing needs mod approval to post I believe. Jingjing herself is the only mod last I checked and so a lot of losers with nothing better to do spammed with racist and sexist garbage prompting the change.

        • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml
          9·
          2 years ago

          I was still on reddit when the chonglang raid happened. One of their highlights was celebrating the Rape of Nanking with a photo of an imperial Japanese soldier skewering an infant with a bayonet. It wasn’t even marked NSFW.

  • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
    25·
    2 years ago

    What sort of content was driving the traffic on Reddit?

    Are we doing that here?

    My first time using Reddit was after I started reading Marx and Marxists. I’d read Capital and quite a few other texts (no Lenin, yet). But I just could not quite understand DiaMat. So I googled it and was taken to r/communism101, from where I found r/communism. First I searched both subs for every post on DiaMat and HiMat, then arranged by top posts and read almost everything I could. It was informative and helpful. It kept me around.

    Not everyone’s like me, but… If people come here and we’ve got the right content, they’ll stay.

    Obviously I think we’ve already got the right content and community atmosphere – so this isn’t meant as criticism. And there is likely a danger in growing too fast but if we do want to grow…

    Some of our good discussions happen when someone posts the right question. Could we plan out discussion topics and tackle them from different perspectives? It may be worth us hashing out some ideas for topics / posts so that readers who find their way here, stay. We could pick a topic together in the weekly Juche thread? Maybe it’s better to be spontaneous, idk.

    Perhaps we could do Q&As for basic questions in some of our more serious communities?

    The right links might help us get traction if some of us did post to Reddit…

    • Lemmy_Mouse@lemmygrad.ml
      7·
      2 years ago

      "The right links might help us get traction if some of us did post to Reddit… " This will likely provide the most traction. Imo this site has 2 distinct advantages over Reddit: 1, 90% of users are knowledgeable radicals. 2, content that is inconvenient for the status quo is uncensorable. I think those advantages and Lemmygrad content should be spread to other more popular social media.

  • KiG V2@lemmygrad.ml
    22·
    2 years ago

    Until some serious shifts happen in general culture, this will not be happening, and no amount of cold advertising is going to bring this many people. 99% of people will be instantly turned off on virtue of it being a whole ass different website, and a tiny one at that. This is a backwater internet forum, not a trending social media hub.

    I definitely think Lemmygrad can do productive things, I myself thought about trying to get people to make some agitprop with me but frankly my life has no time or energy right now. I definitely don’t want to shoot down ideas but I think expecting anything but very slow and modest growth is a little out of our scope–honestly just keeping it alive and not hemorrhaging active users alone is a goal that might be difficult to accomplish.

    As others have said, Reddit becoming the next Twitter–rotting beyond repair–will give us a boost, but ONLY if communist communities on Reddit are readily recommendeding us as a safe haven.

    We definitely need an expansive ML social media within the next few decades, one that is a hub of all sorts of activity and interests, and Lemmygrad may very well end up being it, or even the skeleton of it. But first and foremost we need more MLs before the demand for an ML social media can be sufficient. This new wave of MLism is definitely growing but it is still quite modest across the internet.

      • TarkovSurvivor@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        2 years ago

        While it never ceased existing, quarantine made it less accessible, users left for fear they would be banned from reddit for being active in a quarantined subreddit and the community splintered. Its not what it was.

        • KiG V2@lemmygrad.ml
          2·
          2 years ago

          This makes sense, I will say though when I glanced at it it seemed more active than Lemmygrad by several magnitudes still. Even a shell of GZD is still a beefy community compared to a small backwater like Lemmygrad.