Last week, we made a Twitter thread on the Otto Warmbier story that reached 125k people.
A few days later, we made a thread on Yeonmi Park that reached 450k people on Twitter.
Since then, any tweet we send out has been an instant hit, garnering 10000 views at the very least.
The Yeonmi Park thread was such a hit that Natalie Everhart and Hakim messaged us lol (okay technically we messaged Natalie first for help on a follow-up thread)
I’ve been posting nonstop since then to try and ride that wave as much as possible, spacing the tweets out by a day or two each so that they don’t cannibalise each other.
This is after we’d been stuck in the void for a few months, desperately posting to go from 2390 to 2400 followers, our tweets getting a measly 300 views no matter on the quality.
With just two viral tweets, we gained 1400 followers, or more than 50%.
DPRK posting especially got them hooked, a simple picture of a bus stop in Pyongyang got 50k views.
It’s also been great for redirecting traffic to PW, but not so much to get new editors yet.
I have to admit it’s getting difficult to find stuff to tweet about and it takes a while to prepare those threads so if anyone of our Lemmygradians has ideas and would like to write a thread for us, I think that could be worked out. You get at least 10000 views guaranteed (it’s addictive) and we can link to your handle!
Hakim messaged us lol
We should definitely try to get Hakim to do an AMA on the grad. Hexbeareans managed to get JT/Second Thought to do an AMA on their cave of bears, only makes sense that being a red and yellow lemmy instance that we’d interview someone with a red and yellow profile picture lol.
I would kill to have Hakim do an AMA here.
You hear that, Critical? Even the people here wants it.
So y’all should try and get Hakim in here.
That way our rival wouldn’t be able to have all the credit of being able to get a deprogram member into their board.
I vote we should get both Hakim and Yogopnik here, that way we can have them outmatched 2 to 1
that’s a great idea! we should focus on hakim first though
hakim and the grad’s colors match after all haha.
yes, we must go after one at a time, we cannot split our resources.
I can ask Second Thought personally whether he’d like to do something with Lemmygrad later on.
That sounds excellent
Indeed.
Hakim is too humble to do AMAs, he didn’t even want us to make him a page on ProleWiki!
Whaaaaaaat, but he did AMAs years ago, notably on Discord… 😔
I’m 100% certain he did, but he deleted a lot of his older videos so I can’t even link it here.
I remember watching that video, it was a vc on the Politics discord.
Hakim has also made dumb comments in the past, most notably about Anfal and the Ottoman empire and the like, so I would say that that’s why he deleted some of his older material.
Is Hexbear or whatever it’s called any good?
I like how the prolewiki Twitter accounts’ response to some spewing horseshit in the replies is just “you don’t know what you’re talking about” 😂💀
That was me 🙋
I just don’t bother with these people anymore. If they want to learn in good faith then we can have a discussion (everything is in the thread so it’ll have to be one hell of a conversation to keep me engaged). If they just want to scream into the void I roast and then block them.
We got a couple people saying “no this is wrong” in the QTs too but they don’t bring any argument lol, they just make an appeal to authority – themselves, some rando on Twitter who could be a cat for all I know.
Debates are stupid and don’t work.
some rando on Twitter who could be a cat for all I know.
Excuse me i never heard about a cat which would spout anticommunism
At this rate, you’re soon gonna have to watch out for the feds.
I hope I’m wrong, but I think it’s only a matter of time before your account gets banned or suspended. Hate speech, genocide denial or misinformation, they’re gonna find an excuse to do it. You should prepare a backup account or smth, just in case.
If we get banned on Twitter, then we just have to accept it.
But there’s much bigger accounts than us saying the same thing and they haven’t been banned yet. In fact, since Musk fired the whole trust and safety team, you can report stuff as much as you want and it won’t get deleted lol
So far we haven’t ever had an action taken against our account so we’re on good terms. I’m more worried about what will happen if Musk actually takes out the block feature, we might leave Twitter for good (maybe lemmygrad should start a Mastodon instance lol)
We should have a Mastodon, just repost stuffs from Twitter. A crafty rabbit has three burrows.
yeah, it pays to build it now for when you’ll need it later. But I heard Mastodon was super anarchist, if there was an instance we would be sure not to be banned from it would be interesting and quite easy to double-post.
Also looking at bluesky maybe, people seem to talk about it less now but it could be interesting being an early adopter.
Mastodon is left-liberal, and of course the vibe is totally going to depend on who your instance federates with. I don’t think it’s a good place for propaganda. From my experience, the search function is bad, there are only a maximum of three trending hashtags at once, and of course federation means that all of the liberals will quarantine your instance. You could maybe game the trending hashtags though cause the userbase is small.
toots.matapacos.dog is the instance I use and it’s affiliated with Hexbear. It’s small and federated with liberals, anarchists, and communists. You’re not allowed to dunk on anarchists too hard though. So it’s a good place to chill with comrades, but for agitprop you’ll want to spin up your own instance if you decide to try Mastodon.
Yes, I’m promoting Lemmygrad on Mastodon.
This is hearsay.
I’m on Mastodon right now and it has a growing number of Marxist-Leninists!
It’s the same with every communist party: you’re going to hit a wall eventually, but the point is to get as far as you can before the wall is placed and then go another direction.
“Free speech” in the “free West” be like:
I wouldn’t worry about “feds.” What are the “feds”?
You’re more likely to encounter other levers of power, such as corporate censorship and anti-communist laws still in the books.
Dialectics go BRRRRR
Marxism-Leninism is all about tipping points.
it makes sense that good-faith liberals would be intrigued by something like a photo of Pyongyang, they were told the DPRK was a totalitarian hellscape and all kinds of other lies
keep up the good work spreading evil tankie propaganda 🫡
I knew that we would eventually hit a point where we grew exponentially; it happened before.
This would be the second time that this has happened now.
May I recommend a post about Kim Il Sung and Black Panthers relations?
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/708585?
It may not quite fit your style, but it’s very interesting! Also I can’t quite source the images down other than a single r/socialism post, so the quality is less than great.
Great find! I’ll schedule it
You’re taking suggestions, I see?
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Hey, I’ve also been promoting Lemmygrad on Twitter non-stop.
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Of course!
^ New thread promoting Lemmygrad on Reddit.
Cross-post this post to other subreddits as much as you’re able to, will ya?
Thanks in advance!
I’ll try to do so as well.
