I got started when I joined Lemmy actually! I talked to people like @dessalines@lemmy.ml and @nutomic@lemmy.ml, and that was the first time I seriously had my liberal/socdem views challenged. I spent some time on communist communities on Reddit and Lemmy, read all kinds of resources that other communists posted. Particularly DebateCommunism and Sino on Reddit and Communism101 on both Reddit and Lemmy, as well as Dessalines’ excellent lists of links. I definitely resisted at first, and looking back now, I realized that I was just repeating Western propaganda that I had been taught, you can probably even see it if you go far back in my Lemmy.ml account.
Lemmy truly is a radicalizing tool, to be honest, if you equip it into the right hands. Even though I wasn’t a liberal when I got here it also helped me to move away from Western ideals.
That is our aims, ultimately. At least on Lemmygrad.
The internet desperately needs a far-left sphere that isn’t western nonsense or dominated by sponsors, where we can have honest (and fully open, uncensored) discussions on all of the topics that need to be talked about, without the overbearing weight of liberal invaders on those discussion topics.
Lemmygrad is hosted exterior to the United States, and can be somewhat effortlessly moved around should the need arise. So we’re free to post things that sites like Reddit, Twitter, or Facebook would ban a user for. Which, in all honesty, is part of what’s required to have the discussions the left needs. You won’t get a good amount of the discourse Lemmygrad has (and has had) on those sites, simply because we can actually call out western propaganda without vanishing from the discussion space.
With the recent events, and western media’s response to it, there’s a chance Lemmygrad will be one of the last decent places left to challenge anti-Russian propaganda. And we have the added advantage of being a pointedly Marxist-Leninist space, that will actively fight against liberal bullshitery.
I got started when I joined Lemmy actually! I talked to people like @dessalines@lemmy.ml and @nutomic@lemmy.ml, and that was the first time I seriously had my liberal/socdem views challenged. I spent some time on communist communities on Reddit and Lemmy, read all kinds of resources that other communists posted. Particularly DebateCommunism and Sino on Reddit and Communism101 on both Reddit and Lemmy, as well as Dessalines’ excellent lists of links. I definitely resisted at first, and looking back now, I realized that I was just repeating Western propaganda that I had been taught, you can probably even see it if you go far back in my Lemmy.ml account.
Lemmy truly is a radicalizing tool, to be honest, if you equip it into the right hands. Even though I wasn’t a liberal when I got here it also helped me to move away from Western ideals.
That is our aims, ultimately. At least on Lemmygrad.
The internet desperately needs a far-left sphere that isn’t western nonsense or dominated by sponsors, where we can have honest (and fully open, uncensored) discussions on all of the topics that need to be talked about, without the overbearing weight of liberal invaders on those discussion topics.
Lemmygrad is hosted exterior to the United States, and can be somewhat effortlessly moved around should the need arise. So we’re free to post things that sites like Reddit, Twitter, or Facebook would ban a user for. Which, in all honesty, is part of what’s required to have the discussions the left needs. You won’t get a good amount of the discourse Lemmygrad has (and has had) on those sites, simply because we can actually call out western propaganda without vanishing from the discussion space.
With the recent events, and western media’s response to it, there’s a chance Lemmygrad will be one of the last decent places left to challenge anti-Russian propaganda. And we have the added advantage of being a pointedly Marxist-Leninist space, that will actively fight against liberal bullshitery.