Welcome to even more new users! Please read this ;)
Welcome to even more new users! Please read this ;)
Welcome to even more new users! There's real hype behind Lemmygrad due to the Reddit API thing, which drives further hype for people to recommend Lemmygrad to their friends.
This post should contain everything to get you started using Lemmygrad, so please read it entirely. Then, at the end, why not make your first comment in this thread and tell us about yourself?
What is Federation
Lemmygrad works similarly to Reddit for users. You can make posts, subscribe to communities, comment on posts, etc.
The major part where we differ from Reddit (aside from the fact we're not corporate-owned and don't run ads) is that Lemmy allows federation to other instances. If you click on the "All" button at the top of your home page, you'll see posts from Lemmygrad as well as other instances (two big ones we federate with is lemmy.ml and lemmy.world). You can act on those instances the same way you would act on Lemmygrad, except they have their own rules and moderation team. They're completely independent from us, you can just interact with them. And they can interact with us too.
You can also subscribe to federated communities by the way, and they will show up on your "Subscribed" view (on the same group of buttons as All).
We also federate with Mastodon and other ActivityPub projects by the way. You access all federation from lemmygrad.ml, by using the All button or typing the URL you want to reach in the search bar.
Speaking of, please read our rules
Lemmygrad-wide rules are on the homepage. I'll copy them here too:
Rules
- No capitalist apologia / anti-communism.
- No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
- Be respectful. This is a safe space where all comrades >should feel welcome, this includes a warning against >uncritical sectarianism.
- No porn or sexually explicit content (even if marked >NSFW).
- No right-deviationists (patsocs, nazbols, strasserists, >duginists, etc).
Since January 2023, the creation of new "Shit X Say" type communities is not allowed. Please post anything of that nature to Shit Reactionaries Say or Shit Ultras Say.
We take these rules seriously and you will be warned or even banned (temporarily or permanently) for breaking them. We've cultivated a very laid-back and welcoming atmosphere here over the years though, so don't be scared to participate haha
If you participate on Lemmygrad from another instance, we also expect you will respect our rules.
Creating communities
Unlike other Lemmy instances, we allow users to create communities here. You're free to create a community (subreddits on the aforementioned inferior competitor), but please look around to make sure it doesn't already exist. Community bloat is a real problem on such a small site, which is why we merged the Shit X Say communities into just 2 earlier this year.
You're free to run a community you create however you want for the most part, but you have to respect and enforce the instance rules. For our part we try not to step on your toes as a mod unless we have to make a sitewide ban. Essentially it helps spread the load of moderation from our small team of 5 people.
As a moderator, you can't ban people from the lemmygrad as a whole, just from your community. Generally, we find that someone who gets banned from a community should be banned from the whole instance, so in that case feel free to contact us or make a report and we'll look at it.
How to make reports
We're a small team managing a growing forum, and as such we rely on reports to see what we can't see ourselves. Please see this post: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/727768
What else?
We try to submit big decisions to the community for input as much as possible, for example the merger of SXS communities was first put to a vote, and then further discussed to see how we should go about it.
We hope you enjoy Lemmygrad, now it's your turn ;) tell us a bit about yourself!
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Saw this posted on r/socialism, so I came. Happy to be here. Will mostly be lurking. Heavy RevLeftRadio Red_Menace listener. Can't quite quit Reddit because I need my doses of tradespeople talking about plumbing, home maintenance, and permaculture.
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Hey comrades, ML from Australia here, although big appreciation for MLM too. I saw the link to Lemmygrad back when GenZedong was quarantined, checked it out, and then forgot about it. I found this again checking out what was blocked on other instances, so thanks libs I guess? Looking forward to my local feed being actually good, and I will hopefully end up posting more than on Reddit.
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Was going to start a new comment thread so say hi, but why not here, this is pretty much my story (except I'm European). It gives me good vibes to see that GenZhou survives here. It was a great place for reading news/opinions.
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Hey, I'm new here, but not entirely new to theory and discussion of these things (highly recommend George Jackson's Blood In my Eye). Hope I can learn some things and contribute too. May have developed a slight tendency to overgeneralize differing material conditions from engaging with people online who are not used to this stuff and trying to condense it, and am willing to listen if I come across as missing the historical context of something at any point. I try not to say too much about stuff beyond the US, as it's what I'm most familiar with the conditions of, but I do try to venture beyond if it seems appropriate and something I've done some investigation on.
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Hi there! I made my account back in December but forgot about it until tonight. I have been trying to decrease my dependence on another corporate social media platform so I’ve been trying out alternatives and this is one that I saw a link for somewhere (either reddit or telegram) and decided I wanted to try.
I am a M-L, I am doing some organizing locally, I have a dog and a cat, I love memes (and sometimes make them too), and like another comrade in here, I am also one of those middle-aged people who keeps getting more chill and laid back as I get older (but also more angry with the conditions imposed on us by late stage capitalism/bourgeoisie).
I look forward to learning my way around and getting to know everyone, y’all seem very cool.
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Hey there! Never heard of Lemmy before all that Reddit situation, which is a sad occasion because I like it here! I'm a left-winger since mid-teen ages, first got bought by the Venus project (see, it's not useless!), and then figured out it's basically communism served for red scare victims and went into Marxism from there (and never looked back). Despite being a fairly orthodox Marxist, I'm also a young and somewhat soyboy left-winger, wishing to make the world a better place for everyone (for that reason I'm also a young and aspiring scientist). Hope to find meaningful conversations, useful theory and deep analysis of world's events here.
P.S. I also come from an actual Leningrad (Saint Petersburg, that is), which I guess makes me the ultimate Lemmygrad user :D
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hello! I'm not much of a redditor but lemmy looks promising; I've been on the fediverse for a bit so I'm used to the multiple federated servers format.
Anyhow, outside of my politics, I'm mostly about gardening, caring for our three dogs, and reading up on sciences. I live in Texas, and have to deal with the shitty politics of that place in my offline life, but online I like reading political theory and research.
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hello everyone! i've been a lurker for like a year or so, and a week ago i have made my account. i am a ml in training. sorry for being late in making a reply here.
edit: about me: i like sandbox games, use linux and laugh at memes all day. i try to draw and most of the time they don't end up good. i am also a little timid i guess. i forgot to mention all of this, i apologize.
i hope everyone has a good day.
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Hi! I came here because I was curious about Lemmy after Hexbear swapped back over to it.
So far I’m just concerned that I’m too much of an anti-secular softie to fit here, I get the impression a lot of people here came from genzdong and other subreddits during the recent Dark Ages when self described “anarchists” started calling anyone who wanted anything more extreme than liberal policies a “tankie”, so they’re understandably pretty disillusioned with anarchists in general.
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Unlike other Lemmy instances, we allow users to create communities here
huh, I assumed this was the case for most instances
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This post isn't for you, it's for new users, please unread it ASAP.
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Hello everyone! I am a Marxist who wants to communicate with other communists and marxists! I like youtube videos, music, marxist literature, water, and cats :3
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Hi
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Goodbye Reddit, Hello Lemmy!
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Made my account YEARS ago and now I'm back. Thanks, Admins :)
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Plan on moving to lemmy and other foss-focused stuff because reddit sucks. Greetings and all that.
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oh shit I got accepted a while ago, I never received the email and assumed the mods were swamped or something. Well, I'm a hexbear user but the vibe here is pretty cool also, so I check here every once in a while and excited to join and discuss
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hey guys, thanks for accepting me!
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hello.
what is hexbear and why dont they federate with anything?
also, what are the bad lemmy instances i should be wary of?
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Hexbear, originally known as chapo dot chat, was created three (?) years ago by members of /r/chapotraphouse after the subreddit got banned. Its software was based off of lemmy, but so many changes were made that they no longer worked together. Now, they finally added all the features they contributed to lemmy, so hexbear will become a lemmy instance in a few days. The admins said they will only be federating with lemmygrad for the moment. It's basically been its own forum for a couple years now so federation with the rest of the instances would chance the vibe a lot.
sh.itjust.works, sopuli.xyz, feddit.de, beehaw.org, lemmy.one, lemmy.ca, and midwest.social, and probably some other moderately sized instances all have lemmygrad blocked, so their users won't see any of your replies. There is now an nsfw lemmy instance so if you don't want to see porn, make sure to block that. I forget the exact name and I don't want to look it up, sorry. The 196 blahaj zone community is anticommunist and maybe also anti-anarchist?? so I'd recommend just blocking that cause you'll get banned immediately anyway.
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that one is defederating everyone, from what i saw
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hi friend! I'm from hexbear and I hang out here as of recently. I'll give you the brief.
Hexbear was once another Lemmy instance just like all the others. At some point a while back, we decided we wanted some other features that lemmy didn't support, like custom emoji and pronoun flair. So we forked lemmy and did our own thing. We kinda started to regret it because lemmy started making performance improvements that we wanted, so our lovely development team is in the process of implementing the hexbear-unique features in mainline lemmy and migrating us back to mainline lemmy. We're actually set to migrate to mainline lemmy on the 17th without federation yet, and we're set to turn on federation, starting with lemmygrad, some undefined but soon date after that when we work out all the migration bugs.
looking forward to shitposting with you comrade 🫡
oh, also, some more notes:
- hexbear is pan-leftist with a definitive bias towards Marxism (but we do have anarchist comms and we do have lots of good faith and rewarding interactions with the anarchists there)
- hexbear is l a r g e by fediverse standards (600 users online at time of writing)
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Thanks for having me! This is my first time being openly communist online. I'm a long time lurker, and I love the vibe here. In light of the recent radlib uprising though, I really wanted to openly show my support for my comrades here.
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No. I've been lurking on and off since /r/GenZedong was quarantined. There were a lot of links to Lemmygrad back then. In the Reddit kerfuffle this week, I looked closer at actually joining Lemmy. I was initially going to create my account on lemmy.world or lemmy.ml, but the anti-communist nonsense from blahaj-zone convinced me to throw off the mask and sign up here instead.
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where can i get help about using Lemmy?
for example, how can i ping someone? how can i ping another community?
writing @user@instan.ce doesnt work. the same with instan.ce/u/user, instan.ce/@user, !community@instan.ce, @community@instan.ce, instan.ce/c/community
is there any way to do it, to begin with?
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Tagging: type @ then start typing the user name or display name. Tagging you for example -> @CompadredeOgum@lemmygrad.ml
Linking community: type ! then start typing the community name. Eg. !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
This feature hasn't been fleshed out yet so searching is a bit slow. It needs to be worked in.
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Hello there, was searching for a floss decentralized alternative to Reddit :)
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Hi. I'm a reddit refugee who got sick of the american and capitalist bias that permeate that place. Glad to join the discussion.