If you registered before March, you don’t remember having to get your account approved because it wasn’t in place back then.
Since the GZD migration from reddit to lemmygrad, we started asking questions like most places do. Currently, the questions are:
To combat brigrading, we have restricted user registration on this instance. Please write a short description containing:
Why you would like to join?
What left tendency would you call yourself? ( Marxist / Marxist-Leninist, etc)
What communities you would most like to participate in, and
How or why you chose the username you did.
We use these questions to screen for and discourage spammers and trolls. We will try our best to review your application as soon as possible.
However, lemmygrad is not like most closed spaces. We accept almost anyone. The reason for this is that it’s very easy to ban them afterwards if we made a wrong call.
This means you may see people on Lemmygrad that are not entirely ML, or do not agree with you 100%. Many are also new to marxism.
This ensures we fight spam and still allow people to participate – they might not yet be ML but we’d rather have them here than on reddit, right?
With that said we obviously don’t approve liberals, reactionaries, etc. We are just quite lenient on approving accounts.
So please remember when you interact with the community that they are not necessarily at the same level you are at yet, and may need guidance. With that said, mods are allowed to ban people from their communities if they feel the user broke community rules.
This group made me ML lol
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I used to lurk here because people hate the west, and I hate the west, but then I accidentally learned Marxist leninism is based.
The classic tankie-trap, we lure you in with surface level anti-capitalism and memes, but before you know it, you’re reading hundreds pages of Kapital daily.
unironically doing me good, I used to be unable to read and understand anything above 3 lines without crying, now I can read books like a normal person.
they might not yet be ML but we’d rather have them here than on reddit, right?
definitely, as long as they’re not engaging in bad faith
It’s good to welcome open minded people that are not yet MLs
I agree, needless antagonism is the greatest way to create enemies and gatekeeping has never helped any group succeed. Plus it would be hypocritical from a proletarian viewpoint that we would only allow certain people.
I remember finding the questions difficult to answer
do we allow Anarchists and Trots here
I don’t think we’ve ever allowed even one trot, but we did allow a couple anarchists if they seemed based enough
Honestly, I’m torn on the topic because online anarchists are some of the most insufferable people on the planet, while all the Anarchists I know irl just like to volunteer in soup kitchens and organize strikes. Its a weird disconnect in their community.
