Our community is growing larger and larger. Two weeks ago, we had finally passed the 1,000 users mark after years, and right now we are already at almost 2,000 users. Possible causes for this are the very recent US government censorship of Reddit. In the course of 3 weeks, Reddit banned the left-leaning r/chapotraphouse, r/MoreTankieChapo, and left the subsequent ideological refugees in r/MoreMoreTankieChapo also homeless.
Good news, we exist, and our community welcomes all revolutionaries, especially marxist-leninists. In this website, we uphold the past and current* socialist experences. We love hate speech, we are only against bourgeois ideology and reactionary language**.
We have been entering Reddit, albeit slowly, but we’re still trying to make our way to be known before the r/communism and r/communism101 are banned and loses all its subscribers and consequently awareness of our space. We shouldn’t worry about it, though, we can make an organized effort to bring comrades here later, also.
The thing is, we need a name, comrades. Most of the time I’ve seen the comrades share our community around was either saying “the communist Lemmy instance”, the “Communist Lemmy”, “communism.lemmy”, or something along those lines. These are not easy to remember.
Comrade @muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml suggested that we could do a public poll to decide a name, to be approved by both users and administrators.
Let’s keep in mind the most voted one shouldn’t necessarily be the chosen one, but would certainly influence admin decision. The reason for this is that while the majority may vote for simple and catchy names (which is good), it may actually be also useful to check for distinctive names that could make our community appear on top on search engines, for example.
What are you waiting for? Get going, comrade. We will need a name to begin our propaganda effort.
*Current socialist experiences include China, Cuba, Vietnam and People’s Korea.
**Reactionary language means any discrimination against historically oppressed peoples, like women, trans folk, non-white folk, etc. Racism, sexism, ableism, xenophobia, and LGBT discrimination should not be allowed, not even ironically.
The longer you leave it though it might be worse, people will get used to the current name.
As for a name maybe just “Red” because it is simple, describes it well enough and it’s kinda funny that it’s coincidentally the first syllable of “Reddit”
IMO changing it at this point might fuck with people’s saved URL, which would be suicide if the URL doesn’t redirect to here. Though, the site being called “lemmy” isn’t helpful for searching, because every search term but “lemmy website” takes you to the artist, and “lemmy website” only takes you to the dev branch of the site. If we’re going to rename, it needs to be something unique to make it search-engine-able, and in my opinion if we’re deadset on changing the name, we might as well go with something poetic, which is why my suggestion is “Laika”. This is the left’s starlight beacon to a new future, in our continuing quest to unify under one banner. So, might as well be the Soviet space doggo. Also if it’s Laika, we’ll have a mascot.
Yeah I like Laika
Love the idea of Laika as a mascot. I am also partial to Yuri. I see no fascist mods here!
RIP :service dog:
so there is a musician by the same name. the suggested names should also be run through a search engine
but it is probably a bad time to suddenly swap names
Laika is sick! I wish Valentina Tereshkova‘s name was short and catchy like that. But Laika is cool as hell.