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just like r/chapotraphouse and r/genzedong that sub was kinda like baby’s first leftist space so there were a lot of people on there who were maybe a little too excited to celebrate yesterday’s events (honestly some of it seemed like borderline fedposting). I knew it was a matter of time until the sub got banned.
It was botted pretty badly as of late. I think they’ve been wanting to find an excuse to get rid of it for a while now
Gonna sticky it for now because there is an influx of new users here because of the ban.
Welcome to everyone reading this and to everyone already applied. For those who do the application and are now lurking: don’t worry if it takes a little bit of time to be approved.
Fuck Reddit.
based reddit can eat shit
Wow, I wasn’t an active poster or commenter there, but the writing on the wall really made me decide to finally move to Lemmy.
Greetings comrades!
(photo is how I’ll feel when I’m arrested for Marxist-Leninist memes)
same lol, just migrated here today
another reddit day that ends in “-y”
We gotta do a massive recruitment campaign on Reddit
That’s how I ended up here. Think I’m done with reddit now.
that’s how i found lemmygrad, big recruitment push on reddit during the period of moderator unrest in late 2022 lol
On censorship:
Communists are not scared of censorship. To capitulate to the censors is to admit from the start that we don’t believe in our own theory. It’s opportunistic, because it leads one to the depths of liberalism. After all if one is scared of being censored for being a communist, then the only solution is to toe the line and you might as well become a democrat if you’re scared of saying anything that could get you banned from any big platform.
The solution is to take control of our own tools, and build dual power. And I don’t mean this online specifically, I mean in every aspect of life. Many parties today make the mistake of capitulating to censorship before they are even censored, because they’re scared. Then they become reformist parties, indistinguishable from liberals, diluting theory to become socially acceptable and palatable as the material conditions continue dwindling around us. Anything to get on TV.
Places such as Lemmygrad allow us to congregate, talk and have a community. But more than that, they also allow us to share knowledge and theory and learn from each other. The solution is to have both self-owned platforms and continue the struggle outside of our bubbles too. It’s not all one or the other, it’s both.
Lemmygrad can’t be banned - first of all it’s all federated. Even if lemmygrad stopped existing, every post that’s federated on the dozens of instance we are linked with would still be up. You can’t take down the federated web unless you take down every single federated website. Moreover, lemmygrad is self-hosted. Being self-hosted, the website can also be brought back very quickly. This is the case for any self-hosted website if you run daily backups like you should be doing anyway.
The solution is to take control of our own tools, and build dual power.
Hell yeah! This has been how I’ve felt for a long time!
Lemmygrad can’t be banned - first of all it’s all federated. Even if lemmygrad stopped existing, every post that’s federated on the dozens of instance we are linked with would still be up. You can’t take down the federated web unless you take down every single federated website. Moreover, lemmygrad is self-hosted. Being self-hosted, the website can also be brought back very quickly. This is the case for any self-hosted website if you run daily backups like you should be doing anyway.
Independently hosted Internet communities like Lemmygrad are in a much better place than communities which exist as “guests” on corporate platforms like Reddit or Facebook, but we need to be thoughtful about this. This is not a problem which can be solved simply by renting dozens of VPSs. The Internet is not magic. It is composed of data centers, routing hubs, high capacity back-bones, last mile ISPs. The vast majority of the network is privately owned. Many aspects of the network are totally monopolized. There are many ways control can be exerted over it. As ecosystems like the Fediverse continue to grow, we will see this power exerted in new and unprecedented ways. Always be prepared.
i’ve been concerned about this as well and as a non-tech savvy person, it’s hard to figure out how to even learn about ways around it. techie stuff is aggressively gatekept - in fact, i came across some interesting articles about LoRa communications and Reticulum Network, but i can’t find anything written up that doesn’t assume a certain level competence or background in tech - so i tried to ask in a socialist prepper subreddit, where i was told that i should not be interested unlearning about Reticulum Network because it’s way too advanced and only hardcore techies are capable of using that.
but anyway - wrt the concern of privatized internet infrastructure, i think that Reticulum thingie could be promising if the nerds ever start sharing their toys with us lolol
They made social media apps so dumb, we became dumber with them.
in fact, i came across some interesting articles about LoRa communications and Reticulum Network, but i can’t find anything written up that doesn’t assume a certain level competence or background in tech - so i tried to ask in a socialist prepper subreddit, where i was told that i should not be interested unlearning about Reticulum Network because it’s way too advanced and only hardcore techies are capable of using that.
A good background for this specific case would be amateur radio. I actually bumped into the guy developing Reticulum on some IRC channel years ago. It is pretty much just an experimental bespoke mesh networking protocol invented by some guy. I was interested as well, but I did not have the knowhow or the hardware to try it out at the time. On paper it looked like a great improvement from the packet networks in use on the ham bands today.
The best approach to get into this sort of thing would be to study for an amateur radio license test, get on the air and try contacting some stations on established packet networks (APRS being the most common, but there are allegedly still some packet BBSes still running), then learn how to set up a custom encodings on top of this hardware one you’ve proven it.
LoRas are a proprietary system, but it’s capabilities can be well understood from a general understanding of the principles and practical aspects of radio communication.
i downloaded the ARRL Ham Radio Licensing Manual and I do plan to get into it once i find safe/stable housing (currently homeless)
I knew that this would happen eventually but knowing that didn’t me make me any less sad today. Reddit is a shithole.
👈 It’s afraid.Yugopnik chadposting in these dire times is probably my favorite thing about all this. Him blazing up on stream when he heard about Charlie Kirk getting smoked was amazing.
Yugopnik has zero chill and I’m all here for it. He’s always been my favorite of the trio because of this.
I’ve only listened to the first podcast episode but he instantly became my fav lol. I need to get back to listening to it.
Motherfucker drops the most insightful dialectical material knowledge out of nowhere after talking about booze and balls for 30 minutes.
Man, this is some bull shit how can these zionist scum keep posting about Israel and its genocidal rhetoric and the deprogram get banned. Shit ain’t right
that’s corporate social media - where wrong things are right and bad things are good. that’s because of who owns them. it’s that cultural hegemony that gramsci told us about.
Welcome home comrades!
And….so now I’m here. Hi comrades.
Welcome and obligatory fuck reddit!
Welcome comrade!
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Welcome!
Welcome, comrade!
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Breaking no-violence-against-whites rules I’m guessing?
They were turning into a new Chapo subreddit. Reddit has been looking for a reason to ban them for a while I would imagine. Got too big and too left. There used to be more libs in there but most have been converted or driven off. I imagine the late stage capitalism sub won’t be far behind. They are getting more and more radical and showing way too much support for China.
If the ban ends up being permanent, it would be good to make a public promo post inviting their refugees onto https://lemmygrad.ml/c/thedeprogram
Good thing I backed up the wiki on here. Could you move it onto Prolewiki also? I can provide raw Markdown files of all the wiki entries.
I’m a bit busy, so I’d def appreciate someone else adding it to prolewiki.
I wasn’t able to become a Prolewiki editor last time I tried, so I can’t add the stuff myself.
I’m not sure when you last tried, but ProleWiki allows editing without an account now, the edits just go through an approval queue. Your IP will show but you can use a VPN if you like.
I wouldn’t say Charlie was white. He looked red from the clips I saw.
He turned white after all the blood rushed out of his body
Even though Russians are white, I’ve seen many other white people on Reddit celebrating the deaths of Russian civilians, which is shocking.
Slavs are conditionally white only while they obey the West.
Just how Ukrainians became white to the Americans.
This is our 9/11
What about when Allende was overthrown by a CIA backed junta?
That too
Yeah, that was pretty bad.
I have been expecting this for a while now but it’s a bit surreal to see it actually happen. r/TheDeprogram played an important role in my radicalization and introduced me to Lemmygrad for the first time. I never actually posted there but I have been a lurker for a long time and so I’m going to miss it. Hopefully this leads to an influx of new Lemmygrad users, I guess now the only political subreddit I’m going to browse is r/ShitLiberalsSay although Reddit will probably come for it as well soon.
Same here. I was just a milquetoast demsoc before I got deprogrammed.
Late stage capitalism is getting pretty based too. Deprogram was becoming the new Chapo. Chapo did to me what Deprogram did for you. Turned me from a dumb little lib to a full on commie but pushing me into Lemmy lol.
