"Henlo leftists of Reddit, Lemmy is operational! It’s built by u/parentis_shotgun and serves as a better and more inviting space to the online leftist sphere. Reddit’s moderation has decided to silence leftist voices, take away our communities, and force us to associate with neo-liberals. Lemmy provides us with a place where we need not worry about being quarantined, where we don’t have to tiptoe around fascists and neo-liberals. Lemmy is built for communists, by communists. No pigs, fash, liberals, or anti-communists allowed!
Lemmy is our best chance at keeping the online leftist community alive, but that’s only possible if Lemmy gains its own community. So please, come on down and sign up! https://lemmygrad.ml"
It needs to be made less Reddit-centric, a little more open to a slightly broader range of leftist ideologies, and generally be better.
Using suggestions, this is what I’ve got:
"There is a spectre haunting over Reddit, the spectre of anti-left bans. Lemmy is an alternate to Reddit and other link aggregator sites designed with leftism in mind, serving as a better and more inviting space for the online leftist sphere. Reddit’s moderation has decided to silence leftist voices, take away our communities, and force us to associate with Liberalism. Lemmy provides us with a place where we need not temper our rhetoric, or “self-censor” to keep our communities. We maintain an anti-sectarian and inclusive outlook, rare for Reddit alternatives, as well we keep our moderation as transparent as it can be. And unlike other politically minded social media, Lemmy will soon be federated (think email), meaning you’ll be able to follow communities elsewhere, and post to them from a single front page. Aswell, Lemmy is free and open-source software; as Communists we’re opposed to privatized software developed for a profit, and feel that all software should be developed publicly for human needs. As such Lemmy will never have ads, or sell user data in any way.
Please feel free to sign up today, the only way the left is going to get a stable external site for organizing and sharing our views is if Lemmy becomes popular, and Lemmy only becomes popular with membership.
Hey so I’ve been thinking about this for the past few days (I know, it’s old news lol) and I’ve come up with something inspired by the song Der heimliche Aufmarsch (sometimes known as the Socialist World Republic).
Worker! Don’t you hear it?
The whispers of anticommunist forces!
We are being chased off online forums so that our yells cannot be heard. We are being driven back in the shadows by the reactionary forces!
Comrade, can’t you hear it! From everywhere, we are assailed with class warfare!
Before it is too late, and before we are divided for good, join us on Lemmygrad ! Lemmy is the new bastion of communism in the digital age. Built by comrades, for comrades.
Worker, comrade! Plant your red banners of labour on Lemmygrad and on every forum! From there shall come the Socialist World Republic!