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!
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
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.
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
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)
No probs, welcome!
Welcome
you seem to be shy lol
Hello, friends! Times are uncertain and in flux but I look forward to this journey with all of you.
As one of the older GenZedong users (I honestly thought it meant “General” Zedong like some kind of militant movement, sorry for crashing your kiddie table) I remember when we all had to gather on niche forums or Usenet or gasp! email discussion lists. Modern social media is convenient, having everything in one place, but that also makes us very vulnerable when those who own the commons decide to crack down.
The corporate coup d’etat is complete and no longer even hidden. It will take some effort, but we can still be together in comradeship and good intention. Let us look at it as opportunity, rather than setback.
Yep, we can’t forget that principled communists will always be at the forefront of science and tech fields. Reddit and silicon valley might be a profit-making machine for now, but they can’t beat us in the long run… history and humanity are on our side.
Communism will win!
I honestly thought it meant “General” Zedong like some kind of militant movement
💀💀💀
This. The fact that we had been able to stay on a fed-controlled centralized platform for so long is a miracle, but what this shows now is that we’ve become relevant enough to be dangerous.
just deleted my reddit account feels good
Reddit, down with them!
CIA funded hellsite made to promote fascist ideology.
They will burn in hell.
It genuinely does scare me, because as principled communists we still need to agitate where the masses are, and do everything we can to prevent them slipping into anti-communism. But it increasingly looks like that’s going away… US media is doing everything it can to push us into WW3 with Russia and China.
first they came for the communists…
hopefully this is a wake up call, I implore other leftist subreddits to delete there subreddits in solidarity and move to better platforms.
No representation is better than misrepersentation.
of course the media wants WW3, its good for ratings
That movie Network from the 1970s, we need another one of those made.
Ngl this feels like it’s gonna be better then reddit.
Thx!
We’re doing the best we can to approve the applications as fast as possible, but there’s a lot of them!
let me know if i can help, im an r/gzd and gzd discord mod and have a mastodon server so i’m familiar with This Kind Of Thing
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.
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.
Anybody just got their reddit account banned? My account for I don’t know 8+ years? 30k karma? Just got nuked in the middle of commenting in r/genzedong. So uninstalling this app now lmao
I got banned for 7 days since yesterday last week it was banned Permanently then I weirdly got my account back lol I made the account in 2015 when I was in HS
I hope I can at least get it back to delete the account or something, super weird.
I am active on the subreddit and I still didn’t get the ban, idk if i ever will but still, if i ever get ban, I am on this site.
I got banned a month ago for saying that anarchists are fucking stupid, which the admins said was targeted harassment lmao. And I was pretty active on GenZ
Rip dude, why? I’ve said some things and never gotten more than a temporary ban :/ sorry comrade
Whoa, what was the reason given?
I don’t know. Got logged out and can no longer back in with the same password (saved on my computer). Logged out on the phone as well. Looking into my profile now says “this account has been suspended”.
I was banned because I harassed a Zionist
Based
Good work.
Thank you for your service
If you mention Jessica Ashooh’s name and anything about her background, a shadowban is imminent.