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.
We’re not going to “conceal” our views, because we know them to be true, and we shouldn’t be afraid of the truth. This is the ultimate tank-pill; our views should be accessible.
I didn’t mean to conceal, but just not cover ourselves in hammers and sickles, as much as I love them.
Like, we should be openly communist, but maybe not have communism in the URL. People just aren’t gonna click the link and thus never be exposed if their brain has a wall from the word in the URL.
But eh, it’s your site, I’m just happy to be off reddit.
I somewhat agree with you, but that position has been losing if you read the comments. So we’ll leave it like this for a while, but also leave the poll open in case anyone decides for a change.
“Lemmygrad” is simply wonderful, and I hope it gets approved.
P.S.: Not my site, I’m just an admin
Lemmygrad would be amazing.