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Announcements ksynwa 2w ago 100%
Japanese spam

There is some Japanese spam that we are being affected with. Some of you might have noticed. I have set up automated removal for it. Please report if you see a spam post that is 2 minutes old or more. We are not sure what the point of this spam is but if it is anything like the last time it is probably an outcome of a fight somewhere in the Japanese fediverse. Not sure over what though.

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Announcements ksynwa 3mo ago 97%
Hexbear is currently down. Hexbear's team is working on it.

https://toots.matapacos.dog/@hexbear/112750621904076718

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Announcements muad_dibber 4mo ago 96%
Upgrade to 0.19.4 done!

We're now on the newest version of lemmy, `0.19.4` . Be sure to open up any bugs / issues on either https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy or https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui . Much thanks to [@ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/ksynwa) for helping with this upgrade. (pic unrelated)

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Announcements ksynwa 4mo ago 100%
Images will be broken while we perform some maintenance

Sorry for the trouble.

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Announcements ksynwa 4mo ago 100%
[IMPORTANT] Lemmygrad's image service will be down while we perform maintenance

EDIT: This has been postponed due to some… unforeseen problems. Will have to do this at a later time. Sorry for the trouble. --- In an effort to encourage our users to read theory instead of dabbling in memes, we will be taking down the image service. Just kidding. This is a part of server maintenance. While we perform this maintenance, the image service will be unavailable. This means that users won't be able to: - view images previously uploaded to Lemmygrad - upload images to Lemmygrad Also, we cannot give a precise timeline for how long this will take because of some unknown variables. I am guessing it can take anywhere between 1 to 4 hours but it's just a guess. We will probably take the image service down in half an hour. Don't like doing this because the site looks effectively broken but don't have much choice here. So sorry about this. :) But DO NOT PANIC. We will be reunited with our memes soon enough.

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Announcements ksynwa 5mo ago 100%
Lemmygrad Inactive Community Purge: Hobart has fallen

Follow-up for: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4630949 I had given two separate deadlines for community purging based on whether the community was created in 2024 or not. But I ended up purging all the unclaimed communities today anyway because I don't think the owners are going to respond. Sorry about that but it makes my work a bit easier. Also I like big purges and I can't lie. The following communities have been purged and the corresponding moderators notified via a DM: ::: spoiler list - /c/adelaide - /c/agitprop - /c/antiimperialism - /c/ask_socialists - /c/australiansocialism - /c/badempanada - /c/blackwolffeed - /c/brisbane - /c/cpa - /c/darwin - /c/fanfiction - /c/firepro - /c/genzedongea - /c/greenandextreme - /c/hassanabi - /c/hobart - /c/italiarossa - /c/jucheprimalism - /c/langex - /c/leftwithoutedge - /c/marxistculture - /c/panches - /c/perth - /c/plants - /c/puroresu - /c/raddemsoc - /c/revolt - /c/southeastasia - /c/sydney - /c/theleftcoalition - /c/thirst_posting - /c/tip - /c/wargamereddragon ::: We will work on removing more inactive communities soon.

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Lemmygrad Inactive Community Purge: Phase 1

## Context At Lemmygrad, we love doing purges. ![stalin heart hands](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/15527aab-4af0-4202-9454-40586e7d61e3.png "emoji stalin-heart-hands") This post regarding ["controlling the creation of minuscule communities and cleaning up abandoned ones"](https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4596595) garnered a lot of agreement so it's time we began cleaning up dead communities. The [communities page](https://lemmygrad.ml/communities) should be more useful after this. What we would like to do is clean up such communities in phases, loosening the criteria as we proceed with each phase. We will run each phase through the community to gather feedback before pulling the trigger. In doing so, we hope to experiment and determine what a good criteria is for finding community candidates for removal. Once we have settled on a reasonable criteria, we can do this periodically. Maybe every six months. We can thus allow community creation freely when clean up at intervals to control the mess. This is the first phase of this process. ## Phase 1 For this, we want to catch the communities that have been dead since arrival. The exact criteria is: - Communities that are at least one month old - Communities that have not seen any post or comment for their entire existence This criteria is pretty strict in the sense that it will only catch communities that we won't mind being gone (I think). There are 36 communities that match this criteria. **They are listed in tabular format at the end of the post hidden under the spoiler tag**. The removal process is going to proceed as follows: - **Communities created in 2023 and earlier will be removed after two days at 2024-05-26 06:30:00 UTC.** - **Communities created in 2024 will be removed after a week at 2024-05-31 06:30:00 UTC.** - **If you would like any of the listed communities to not be deleted for some reason, you can comment here or message the admins. Maybe you want to adopt the community or whatever.** ## Communities Selected for Removal ::: spoiler Table | Name | Title | Created on | Moderators | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | [adelaide](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/adelaide) | Adelaide | 2022-03-26 00:58:41 UTC | [@Nique@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Nique) | | [agitprop](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/agitprop) | Agitative Propaganda | 2020-08-01 16:01:05 UTC | [@Shaggy0291@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Shaggy0291) | | [antiimperialism](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/antiimperialism) | Anti-Imperialist Action | 2024-03-27 18:31:30 UTC | [@Nestori@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Nestori) | | [ask_socialists](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/ask_socialists) | Ask Socialists | 2023-06-16 19:05:51 UTC | [@ilir@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/ilir) | | [australiansocialism](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/australiansocialism) | Australian Socialism | 2022-03-25 23:47:20 UTC | [@Nique@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Nique) | | [badempanada](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/badempanada) | BadEmpanada | 2023-06-01 19:18:02 UTC | [@GenZhukov@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/GenZhukov) | | [blackwolffeed](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/blackwolffeed) | Backup for /r/BlackWolfFeed | 2020-07-11 22:44:59 UTC | [@Mary_Malloc@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Mary_Malloc) | | [brisbane](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/brisbane) | Brisbane | 2022-03-26 00:44:56 UTC | [@Nique@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Nique) | | [cpa](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/cpa) | Communist Party of Australia | 2022-03-26 01:48:09 UTC | [@CPbAsed@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/CPbAsed) | | [darwin](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/darwin) | Darwin | 2022-03-26 01:12:42 UTC | [@Nique@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Nique) | | [fanfiction](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/fanfiction) | Fanfiction | 2023-06-13 19:49:55 UTC | [@100beep@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/100beep) | | [firepro](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/firepro) | The community of the Fire Pro Wrestling series of games | 2020-07-21 15:11:25 UTC | [@Josh_Drake@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Josh_Drake) | | [genzedongea](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzedongea) | r/GenZedong Educational Archive | 2022-04-04 20:31:28 UTC | [@kretenkobr2@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/kretenkobr2) | | [greenandextreme](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/greenandextreme) | GreenandExtreme | 2022-04-04 18:22:30 UTC | [@B0rodin@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/B0rodin) | | [hassanabi](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/hassanabi) | Hassan Piker | 2023-07-03 23:20:14 UTC | [@scunner@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/scunner) | | [hobart](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/hobart) | Hobart | 2022-03-26 01:13:36 UTC | [@Nique@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Nique) | | [italiarossa](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/italiarossa) | Comunità italiana marxista- Italian marxist community | 2022-03-24 13:39:21 UTC | [@anticringe@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/anticringe) | | [jucheprimalism](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/jucheprimalism) | ooga booga | 2021-11-25 04:08:40 UTC | [@Hixen69@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Hixen69) | | [langex](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/langex) | Language exchange | 2022-01-16 07:14:01 UTC | [@felipeforte@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/felipeforte) | | [leftwithoutedge](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/leftwithoutedge) | leftwithoutedge | 2020-07-11 08:25:34 UTC | [@Pheadrus@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Pheadrus) | | [marxistculture](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/marxistculture) | MarxistCulture | 2023-12-27 14:28:33 UTC | [@EdMarCarSe@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/EdMarCarSe) | | [panches](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/panches) | CA "Panches" | 2021-05-22 23:06:38 UTC | [@panches@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/panches) | | [perth](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/perth) | Perth | 2022-03-26 00:45:10 UTC | [@Nique@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Nique) | | [plants](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/plants) | Plants, flowers and nature | 2024-04-16 17:26:31 UTC | [@Markka@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Markka) | | [puroresu](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/puroresu) | Here is a space to discuss Puroresu from a leftist perspective. | 2020-07-19 21:43:58 UTC | [@Josh_Drake@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Josh_Drake) | | [raddemsoc](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/raddemsoc) | Radical DemSocs | 2021-01-29 17:33:51 UTC | [@a_very_rad_demsoc@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/a_very_rad_demsoc) | | [revolt](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/revolt) | Revolt Chat | 2023-07-03 05:58:22 UTC | [@SageSaul@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/SageSaul) | | [southeastasia](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/southeastasia) | Southeast Asia | 2023-03-27 09:12:18 UTC | [@Neptium@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Neptium) | | [space_news](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/space_news) | Space News | 2023-08-20 19:26:53 UTC | [@Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Shinhoshi) | | [sydney](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/sydney) | Sydney | 2022-03-25 23:48:25 UTC | [@Nique@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Nique) | | [theleftcoalition](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/theleftcoalition) | The Left Coalition | 2022-06-17 04:42:09 UTC | [@itselectricboi@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/itselectricboi) | | [thirst_posting](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/thirst_posting) | Thirst Posting | 2021-01-05 03:25:55 UTC | [@vera@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/vera) | | [tip](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/tip) | Türkiye İşçi Partisi - Workers' Party of Turkey | 2023-06-02 03:34:43 UTC | [@ottomanbeethoven@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/ottomanbeethoven) | | [wargamereddragon](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/wargamereddragon) | Wargame: Red Dragon | 2023-01-08 20:38:46 UTC | [@Shaggy0291@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Shaggy0291) | :::

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Welcome dear Hexbear guests

Lemmygrad is happy to welcome you while hexbear is down. Please remember, however, that we work a bit differently from hexbear. Downvotes are enabled on our instance, and that's probably the biggest thing you'll notice. Likewise, our rules differ a bit: we are a bit more serious than hexbear and less shitposty, especially outside the dedicated communities (such as memes, genzedong, shitXsay). Finally, and this is probably the biggest difference, we don't have the same rules about left unity and its discourse - lemmygrad is not 100% ML but leans that way heavily. We also don't have a rule about disengaging because we promote good faith and responsibility, but of course if someone is being a dick or harassing you you should report them. In terms of federation we're federated with about the same instances you are, and in terms of emoji we have very few compared to you. Otherwise I hope you enjoy your time on lemmygrad while Hexbear gets fixed.

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Announcements CannotSleep420 8mo ago 100%
PSA regarding spam

I'm sure many of you have noticed the spam wave hitting [!capitalismindecay@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/capitalismindecay). You may have also seen similar posts getting spammed in [!opensource@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/opensource) and [!asklemmy@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy). I was recently shared a link to [this post](https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9psdqurvye) by someone who learned more about what was going on. It turns out it's a false flag by a cybercriminal group trying to make it look like the person who DDoSed a very lucrative discord bot they run is spamming various fediverse communities. Oddly enough, [both the cybercriminal group and the person being implicated in the false flag are all children](https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9psnooe6p1).

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Announcements muad_dibber 10mo ago 97%
We've upgraded to Lemmy v0.19 🎉 ☠ to 🇺🇸 🎉

Release notes are [here](https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-12-15_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.0_-_Instance_blocking,_Scaled_sort,_and_Federation_Queue)

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Announcements CannotSleep420 11mo ago 100%
Lemmy 0.19.0-rc.5 and Development Update 2023-11-17

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/8090844 > Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program. > > @Neshura87 submitted the first ever RFC for Lemmy! It describes how [post tags can be implemented](https://github.com/LemmyNet/rfcs/pull/4/files). > > 0.19.0 is getting closer and closer to release, but we are still busy squashing bugs and getting lemmy-ui ready. For now there is another release candidate deployed on voyager.lemmy.ml for testing. Here is the full list of changes since the last release candidate for [Lemmy](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/compare/0.19.0-rc.4...0.19.0-rc.5) and [lemmy-ui](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/compare/0.19.0-rc.4...0.19.0-rc.5 > > @nutomic [fixed a bug with following local communities](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4161) in the release candidate. He added a first [integration test for image uploads](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4150). > > @dessalines has been busy updating lemmy-ui to account for Lemmy API changes, and squashing various bugs like an issue with [timezone db migrations](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4153), adding a `creator_is_admin` [field to Post and Comment views.](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4165) > > @SleeplessOne1917 has implemented support for [settings import/export in lemmy-ui](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2223), as well as some bug fixes. > > ### Support development > > @dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations. > > If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider [donating to support its development](https://join-lemmy.org/donate). Recurring donations are ideal because they allow for long-term planning. But also one-time donations of any amount help us. > > - [Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/Lemmy) (preferred option) > - [Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/lemmy) > - [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/dessalines) > - [Cryptocurrency](https://join-lemmy.org/donate) (scroll to bottom of page) >

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Announcements ksynwa 12mo ago 100%
Join-Lemmy.org Redesign and Funding Drive
https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-10-31_-_Join-Lemmy_Redesign_and_Funding_Drive

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/7291022 > Some months have passed on since the [Reddit blackout](https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-06-17_-_Update_from_Lemmy_after_the_Reddit_blackout) this June. It led to an explosive growth in Lemmy users, and lots of urgent work in scaling, bug fixes, user onboarding and more. Since then things have calmed down significantly, giving us breathing room and time to get more long-term work done. > > As of Nov. 2023, Lemmy is at **~36k active daily users** 🥳 (_those who have posted or commented within the last month_). While user counts are not an explicit goal of ours, this is still a tremendous achievement, and one which we can all be proud to be a part of. It shows that people _truly do_ want alternatives to US tech companies, and will use them if they exist. > > ## Join-Lemmy Redesign > > Most recently we've been working on a redesign of join-lemmy.org to provide a better onboarding experience and cater towards new users. This includes: > > - A helpful new [instance picker](http://join-lemmy.org/?showJoinModal=true) to reduce [choice overload](https://thedecisionlab.com/reference-guide/psychology/choice-overload). > - The [instances page](http://join-lemmy.org/instances) is now _filterable_, based a set of topics and languages, as well as _sortable_ based on activity. The default sort is `Random`, to encourage people to join smaller servers. > - The [apps](http://join-lemmy.org/apps) page now has sections for Android, iOS, and web apps, as well as libraries. Feel free to do a pull request to add any apps that are missing. > - The [donate](http://join-lemmy.org/apps) page now shows the total amount of monthly donations across all platforms. More details below. > - The technology used is Typescript with [tailwind](https://tailwindcss.com/) and [daisyUI](https://daisyui.com/) CSS frameworks. > > **For server admins**: If your instance isn't listed already, you must explicitly add your server topics and languages by doing a pull request to [this file](https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/blob/4bd4d7a0c450addb8696db22813796b7cf1de3c2/src/shared/components/instances-definitions.ts). > > As you may have noticed, texts on the website are unchanged, and images on the main page are still generic placeholders. We are hoping for your contributions to improve them. For the texts, edit [this file](https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-translations/blob/1bc69869fda7ee144ddfbc4d9fb29af3a0d4619e/translations/en.json). Translations are managed via [weblate](https://weblate.join-lemmy.org/projects/lemmy/joinlemmy/). Images are located in [this folder](https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/tree/main/src/assets/images). If you are good with AI tools, consider replacing `main_federation.webp` and similar with more colorful images. More `main_screen_x.webp` images with custom themes or alternative frontends would be nice too. In general feel free to open issues or pull requests for improvements to the site. > > ## Funding Drive > > Before the Reddit migration, our income was almost exclusively made up of generous donations from the [NLnet foundation](https://nlnet.nl/). This funding was based on getting paid for implementing new features, specified in advance. > > We've known that this funding could not last indefinitely, and that after several years of funding, NLnet's resources are better spent getting other projects up and running. Additionally, much of our time is spent on other equally important work: reviewing changes from community contributors, fixing bugs, doing support, and various organizational tasks. > > That is why we are launching our first **annual funding drive**. The goal is to increase monthly, recurring donations from currently €4.000 to at least €12.000. With this amount @dessalines and @nutomic can each receive a yearly salary of €50.000 which is in line with [median developer salaries](https://www.developersalary.com/). It will also allow one additional developer to work fulltime on Lemmy and speed up development. > > Recurring donations from Lemmy users are the most sustainable solution for the future. It also means that we need to worry less about funding, and can focus more on improving Lemmy. And instead of being accountable to an external organization, we work **directly for Lemmy's users**. While one-time donations are also welcome, they are too unpredictable for long-term planning. > > You can find available donation options on the [donate page](http://join-lemmy.org/donate). This page was also updated during the redesign to display current donations and funding goals. If each active Lemmy user donated **~€0.33 per month** it would be enough for 3 full-time developers. So please consider donating if you use Lemmy every day. Our preferred donation platform is Liberapay because it doesn't have any payment fees or delays, and is itself open source. > > Besides Lemmy's developers, please consider donating to those who develop open-source apps or software for the Lemmy ecosystem, as well as server admins and moderation teams who are the backbone of the Lemmyverse. We would be happy to add donation links for the above to join-lemmy.org as well! > > If you have any suggestions in regards to the topics mentioned in this post, please let us know. We also want to use this opportunity to thank the countless contributors who are working on Lemmy now.

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Announcements CriticalResist8 12mo ago 97%
GrainEater and DankZedong join the Lemmygrad admin team

With the recent departure of an admin from the team (though they are still active on Lemmygrad, just didn't have time to also admin) and my own upcoming lack of time to commit, we collectively decided to add new admins to the team. GrainEater is the first one to join, and DankZedong confirmed their willingness to join shortly after. Both were picked due to their generally good quality contributions and activity on Lemmygrad, as well as their history, both having been on Lemmygrad for some time.

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Announcements roylemmygrad 1y ago 90%
ISRAEL - PALESTINA : UN CONFLICTO CREADO POR EUROPA

https://mundoglobal.blog/2023/10/14/geopolitica-4-israel-palestina-un-problema-creado-por-europa/

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Announcements CriticalResist8 1y ago 93%
Several worlders are requesting account on Lemmygrad. Comrades, a plea to be on your best behaviour.

As always when interest pops up in Lemmygrad and an exodus happens, we become slightly more lenient with account requests. This doesn't mean we let in centrists or all curious onlookers, but people who are reasonably left and pass vetting are allowed in. This has always been our policy. This is because we prone an open policy and are always happy to help educate. If people want to hear the anti-imperialist camp's opinions, then we should be proud that they come to us for such views. For this reason, if you're a long-time Lemmygrad user, you may see people who don't necessarily act like you would expect us to act, coming from our community. They are likely coming from this exodus and I ask that each of us be patient with them as necessary. If you are considering requesting an account on Lemmygrad however, please note this first: - We ask that you answer all vetting questions. No exceptions will be made. It's fine if you're not necessarily a marxist but detail your political leanings in the first question. - You may have a better experience making an account on another instance such as lemmy.ml that federates with us, then using federation. - You may not need an account if all you want to do is browse, you can also freely lurk.

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Announcements CriticalResist8 1y ago 84%
We've finally been defederated from lemmy world

Fuck you reddit 2.0, took you long enough. Thanks though, we'll stop seeing your crap posters pollute our comment section from now on. 90% of people we ban come from world. Very funny that they said they saw a rise of hate speech from our instance though considering the worlders we ban are fucking genocidal maniacs and fascists. You can check the modlog (it's unfortunately federated), we are one of the tamest instances when it comes to banning people and deleting comments/posts. For any worlder that was based and liked interacting with lemmygrad (you will notice we did not ban good faith participants), I recommend you make an account on a third-party instance that federates with us, like ml or ee until they also defederate from us because we have principles 🙃 Fuck israel, Palestine will be free a month from now mark my words 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 On top of that, for the worlders finally breathing free again now that the scary tankies are away, _you_ think the USSR wasn't communist or whatever. You base that on whatever you've been taught in school. _We've_ read things. We've actually gone beyond whatever our high school teachers said and looked into the USSR for ourselves. If you're not cowards you will debate us about communism and "totalitarian" regimes, we'll wipe the floor with you. Bet you don't even know where the world totalitarian comes from or who coined it without looking it up. And we retain our perfect track record of not blocking real instances while you further isolate yourselves from anything that might cause you some amount of discomfort. Really good democracy you got going there where wannabe tech bros instance admins decide for you what you're allowed to see, must be those liberal values I hear so much about.

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Announcements muad_dibber 1y ago 100%
Images are currently broken, issues with our VPS host.

I'm inquiring with our VPS, but they seem to be having issues: https://terrahoststatus.com/ We do have backups of all the images, so don't worry about them being gone permanently. Apologies, I'll try to get them back up as soon as soon as I can.

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Announcements CriticalResist8 1y ago 96%
Today, Lemmygrad is 4 years and 1 week old
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PSA: if someone doesn't have a pfp next to their name, it means they've been banned

We get reports, and that's great. But sometimes we also get reports for people who have already been banned, it's just that their comments weren't removed. You can differentiate someone who was banned by the lack of a profile picture next to their name. All users since a few lemmy versions have a default pfp of the Lemmy mascot. If there's no pfp there, it means they were banned on the instance you're looking at the comment from.

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Announcements Shinhoshi 1y ago 95%
Let’s welcome the Hexbearers to the Lemmyverse!

We’re finally federating! 🎉

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Announcements CannotSleep420 1y ago 100%
Upcoming AMA with Lemmy's creators: Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2671212 Boosting the dev AMA. > This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they'd like to [@nutomic@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/nutomic) and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

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Announcements CriticalResist8 1y ago 94%
Lemmygrad has never defederated from any real instance, and will continue to do so

Following the news that Lemmy world has decided to defederate from hexbear without consulting their community and before hexbear even federated with anyone, I'd like to make this announcement to settle things once and for all about us "scary tankies" who apparently don't tolerate free expression or whatever. Lemmygrad has been around since the very beginning of Lemmy as a project, we are one of the oldest instance with lemmy.ml. In that time, we have never defederated from anyone except in three cases: - troll instances (usually inactive and unmoderated, with free account requests, that trolls used back in the day to bypass their bans). We usually refederate if they start being moderated again. - outright fascist instances such as exploding heads or powerballs or whatever before the admin deleted it (which you're welcome, it's because there's communists on Lemmy that there's so few fascists) - and, the fringe case, the couple specifically NSFW instances that we instantly defederated from because we don't want to host porn on our database and our rule 5 prohibits porn anywhere on Lemmygrad. Otherwise, we have no reason to defederate from anyone. Holier-than-thou liberals can be difficult and irritating, I'm not denying that or implying we're somehow above it all, but to defederate would imply we are scared of what they have to say. We're not, because what they have to say is stuff we've all seen for ourselves and used to believe too. You can see our blocklist here for yourself: https://lemmygrad.ml/instances, we only block around 40 instances, which might seem like a lot, but then compare to lemmy world which blocks 141 instances, or beehaw which blocks _765_ instances. Nobody is born a communist. Nobody is born a liberal either, but we become one through the self-reproduction of culture. From our earliest age we're exposed to liberalism (the ideology of capitalism) to the point that we integrate it. Did you have a model UN in school and vote for class presidents? So really we can't be scared of anti-communist arguments because we've heard them all before. It's especially weird when people say we "buy into old propaganda" around Stalin or whatever, when anywhere you look, Soviet historiography in academia amounts to little more than "Stalin was paranoid and acted like the Tsar but called himself a communist". Like we went to public school too lol, we had a unit on the USSR lol. Anyway, all defederations that happened on Lemmygrad come from other instances themselves, most of them pre-emptively defederating us before they even saw a single post from us. If beehaw, or shitjustworks, or lemmy dot whatever wanted to refederate, they could do it instantly and we'd be federated again. And on that topic, let's talk about bans. We don't ban people who ask questions in good faith. But we will instantly ban anyone who comes to Lemmygrad solely to troll, as all online forums have done since time immemorial. Likewise on blocklist issues, we poll our community very often for their input and allow them to propose changes. You can look at our [!lemmygrad_court@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/lemmygrad_court) to see some things we've included the community on. We try to practice democratic centralism where applicable. It goes even further; we allow communities and posts that some both on Lemmygrad or outside might disagree with, on the principle that we see ourselves as a more generalistic ML instance. We allow users to have their own community and moderate it however they want (respecting sitewide rules), and generally the removal of a community goes through an admin chat and might even go to a community feedback session. We have meme communities, we have religious communities, we have shitposting communities, and we also have serious discussion communities. And a plethora of personal communities for users who want to post in their own space like a blog. We also have exactly 6 rules and no lengthy code of conduct or other documents one needs to read to participate here. This is helped by the fact that as we're all communists and more specifically mainly marxist-leninists, most of us already behave the expected way around comrades and don't need to be told how to conduct themselves. So let me ask this; who is really censoring who here?

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Announcements CriticalResist8 1y ago 100%
In preparation for federation with Hexbear

For those that don't know, Hexbear has been back on lemmy for a few months now and can therefore federate with all of Lemmy again. For those who don't know [Hexbear](https://hexbear.net), they're an instance based around left unity and more shitposty than us but you know, I still like to browse there because they're very, very active and funny. Hexbear will federate by the end of the month with Lemmygrad, which means you'll be able to visit and interact with them from the "All" tab, and they can do likewise. We expect that federation will be going smoothly and our two cultures won't clash too much, but we also expect some friction at least in the beginning. As a reminder, we apply Lemmygrad rules on Lemmygrad, and Hexbear will, I imagine, apply their rules on their instance. Likewise we won't be moderating stuff that happens on Hexbear **if it only concerns Hexbear.** If it involves a Lemmygradian we _might_ moderate (see PS below for more info on how that works). For Hexbearians that visit Lemmygrad (I assume they'll make the same post on their end so I won't explain how Hexbear works), we're principally Marxist-Leninist but allow non-marxists piecemeal as long as liberalism doesn't come out of their mouths. It's all by the principle of good faith; we do talk to people if they come here in good faith, which I have no doubt will be the case from Hexbear. With that said we'll also be more lenient towards Hexbear since with them, we form essentially the only left presence on Lemmy and we like them very much. We also urge everyone to be lenient with Hexbearians even if they're not marxists. Anyway, while Hexbear is more left unity, in all my time browsing there I've never really had to ask "is this person a marxist?" so their system seems to work well. However, I also expect that since their registrations are open, we _might_ see wreckers and infiltrators make hexbear accounts to troll Lemmygrad. Likewise on their end, it's possible someone requests an account on Lemmygrad to try and troll them. In which case we'll deal with the offender on an individual basis. If you have any questions about federation with Hexbear ask them below. PS: the way comment/post reports work is that if you report a comment on Hexbear with your Lemmygrad account, we'll see it. So please only report stuff you see on Hexbear if it's something we should actually take a look at, or it's something that breaks Hexbear's rules cause your reports help them too.

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Announcements ksynwa 1y ago 95%
Images have been fixed

Image upload (and also download) were not working for the last few hours. This has been a recurring problem but I think I have finally found the real cause so it should not happen again. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Announcements ksynwa 1y ago 96%
Image upload related maintenance in progress.

We are doing some maintenance related to the image upload/serving service. This will take some time. I am guessing maybe 6 hours. **During this period image uploads won't work and old images won't be displayed properly.** Really sorry about this. But thankfully, as far as I can see, this is the last infrastructure related maintenance we have to do. Thanks for understanding. --- Edit: Gonna have to postpone this because of personal reasons. For now images should be working fine.

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Announcements ksynwa 1y ago 96%
Regarding issues plaguing the website over the past few days

I am sure many of us have noticed that the site had problems over the last four or five days. The downtimes were caused because of unrecoverable hardware issues with our server. The result was that he had to rebuild the setup from scratch on a machine and restore from a backup. We have also switched to a new provider since the previous one was consistently causing issues. After this was done, image uploads were still broken for some time. There was no good fix for this because one of the database files used by pictrs had become corrupted due to the aforementioned hardware issues. To resolve this, we had to use an non-corrupted database file from a very old backup. Now image uploads should work fine. The downside is that images uploaded recently will not show up properly. There is not fix for this other than to reupload these images. Sorry about this. Most of the technical problems with the site should be fixed now. There is one maintenance task remaining related to moving the image storage to a new S3 provider which will require some downtime. We will inform about this beforehand. Thanks for your patience.

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Announcements ksynwa 1y ago 94%
Taglines are gone

Follow-up for https://lemmygrad.ml/post/939916. Some of you thought we got hacked so we have removed taglines for now. People also complained about some taglines being too long which also makes sense. We might add them later in the future but for now we have removed them. Thanks for the feedback.

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Announcements CriticalResist8 1y ago 92%
So we have taglines now (those messages you see at the top of the page)

Let's do this again! We can make add taglines now, I added 3 so far but we can have as many as want, so send them here! Please format properly in markdown so I only have to copy and paste.

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Announcements muad_dibber 1y ago 94%
Apologies for downtime today, we're back up.

Our VPS shat the bed *yet again*, and due to a ton of disk-related errors, I had to restore from the last daily backup, so a few hours of data are missing. This is not the first time this has happened, so we're officially done with this VPS, and will migrate to something else in a few days. Again, I apologize, and special thanks to [@ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/ksynwa) for getting us back up so quickly.

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Announcements CriticalResist8 1y ago 100%
We also have taglines now

One prerequisite for Hexbear going back to the main Lemmy branch was the inclusion of taglines. I added our first one but since it's the only one, it will keep appearing above every page. Please add your tagline properly formatted in markdown so that I can simply copy and paste it.

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Announcements CriticalResist8 1y ago 97%
Announcing the Stalin Battalion: You have my blessing to dunk on reactionaries that wander on Lemmygrad

## Forming the Stalin Battalion! Some instances we federate with have free account creation and some people use that to instantly post on Lemmygrad (like 2 days old accounts with comments only on Lemmygrad type of stuff) I give you my blessing to dunk on those people when you see them, go as hard as you need (within reason). But remember: people that are reasonable should receive the same too. I'm talking about pure trolls who know what they're doing. Then don't forget to report them and we'll ban them. If we mobilise a front to counter trolls, I assure you they will stop soon enough because we take the fun out of it.

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Announcements CriticalResist8 1y ago 100%
So we have custom emojis now

We can add anything as an emoji and we virtually have an infinite amount of slots available. Post the emojis you want here, most upvoted will be added. **Please upload them on Lemmygrad ready to be used**, due to the way uploading emojis work. That means you need to get rid of the background etc. This is what the interface requires: ![](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/5bff41eb-29ab-4362-a994-4bad4c3a4983.png) and every field must be filled, so please provide a name for it (as well as : : shortcode) and some keywords I guess. Not sure what these are used for. About categories I'm not sure we're really gonna use them, at least not yet. edit: they get really small when you upload them too, see here: ![fucking liberals](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/323ee658-c242-450d-bdc1-dd4c1517ceb4.jpeg "liberals") So keep that in mind when you suggest an emoji.

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Announcements ksynwa 1y ago 50%
Going to do some maintenance related to image storage!

Image uploading and downloading will be down for a while. Gonna try my best to do it without bringing the site down. Sorry for the inconvenience it will inevitably cause. EDIT: 2023-06-23T04:07:57+00:00: Going to take down pictrs now. There is a chance it might break the site. EDIT: 2023-06-25T04:21:57+00:00: Site did not break. Migration has begun. Should take one to three hours in my estimate. EDIT: 2023-06-25T05:54:00+00:00: Migrations still ongoing. EDIT: 2023-06-25T06:36:17+00:00: Final stretch. Image upload will work now. Old images will be back Soon(TM). EDIT: 2023-06-25T07:42:07+00:00: Old images are coming back online. Migration should be done in 10-20 minutes. EDIT: 2023-06-25T07:49:35+00:00: It is done.

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Announcements muad_dibber 1y ago 71%
Lemmygrad will be down for a few minutes while we upgrade to a new lemmy version

Should be less than 30 minutes.

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Announcements CriticalResist8 1y ago 100%
If you have tech capabilities, I urge you to participate in coding for Lemmy (+ what happened to your posts)

Yesterday, muad'dibber had to quickly restore lemmygrad from a backup due to disk space issues on Lemmygrad's host. We didn't have the info earlier because he's super busy juggling between and fixing stuff on Lemmy, lemmy.ml and lemmygrad due to the Reddit migration. So please don't take it too hard on him 🙏 he did what was necessary, there was no other option than to restore a backup, we just didn't have the info. That's why I suggest that if you can code, you should help Lemmy! On our end we are starting to need better moderation tools (like being able to message the whole admin team would be great) to name just one. They have lots of issues open and probably even more now that lemmy has had a surge of activity, so any contribution to the code would help greatly! Here's the repo: https://github.com/LemmyNet

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Announcements CriticalResist8 1y ago 93%
IF YOU REQUEST AN ACCOUNT: WAIT A FEW HOURS THEN TRY TO LOGIN (post for lurkers)

If you're approved please read this too and come say hi! https://lemmygrad.ml/post/734891 We go through account requests in around 3 hours at most. The problem is the email that you're supposed to get when your account gets approved or denied doesn't get sent. What you have to do after you request an account is try to login to your account and see if you can get in. If you've been approved, you'll log in normally. If you're still in waiting, it should say something like "registration pending". If you've been denied, it should say "your account was denied".

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Welcome to even more new users! Please read this ;)

Welcome to even more new users! There's real hype behind Lemmygrad due to the Reddit API thing, which drives further hype for people to recommend Lemmygrad to their friends. This post should contain everything to get you started using Lemmygrad, so please read it entirely. Then, at the end, why not make your first comment in this thread and tell us about yourself? ## What is Federation Lemmygrad works similarly to Reddit for users. You can make posts, subscribe to communities, comment on posts, etc. The major part where we differ from Reddit (aside from the fact we're not corporate-owned and don't run ads) is that Lemmy allows federation to other instances. If you click on the "All" button at the top of your home page, you'll see posts from Lemmygrad as well as other instances (two big ones we federate with is lemmy.ml and lemmy.world). You can act on those instances the same way you would act on Lemmygrad, except they have their own rules and moderation team. They're completely independent from us, you can just interact with them. And they can interact with us too. You can also subscribe to federated communities by the way, and they will show up on your "Subscribed" view (on the same group of buttons as All). We also federate with Mastodon and other ActivityPub projects by the way. You access all federation from lemmygrad.ml, by using the All button or typing the URL you want to reach in the search bar. ## Speaking of, please read our rules Lemmygrad-wide rules are on the homepage. I'll copy them here too: > ##### Rules > > 1. No capitalist apologia / anti-communism. >1. No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. >1. Be respectful. This is a safe space where all comrades >should feel welcome, this includes a warning against >uncritical sectarianism. >1. No porn or sexually explicit content (even if marked >NSFW). >1. No right-deviationists (patsocs, nazbols, strasserists, >duginists, etc). > >Since January 2023, the creation of new "Shit X Say" type communities is not allowed. Please post anything of that nature to [Shit Reactionaries Say](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/shitreactionariessay) or [Shit Ultras Say](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/shitultrassay). We take these rules seriously and you will be warned or even banned (temporarily or permanently) for breaking them. We've cultivated a very laid-back and welcoming atmosphere here over the years though, so don't be scared to participate haha If you participate on Lemmygrad from another instance, we also expect you will respect our rules. ## Creating communities Unlike other Lemmy instances, we allow users to create communities here. You're free to create a community (subreddits on the aforementioned inferior competitor), but please look around to make sure it doesn't already exist. Community bloat is a real problem on such a small site, which is why we merged the Shit X Say communities into just 2 earlier this year. You're free to run a community you create however you want for the most part, but you have to respect and enforce the instance rules. For our part we try not to step on your toes as a mod unless we have to make a sitewide ban. Essentially it helps spread the load of moderation from our small team of 5 people. As a moderator, you can't ban people from the lemmygrad as a whole, just from your community. Generally, we find that someone who gets banned from a community should be banned from the whole instance, so in that case feel free to contact us or make a report and we'll look at it. ## How to make reports We're a small team managing a growing forum, and as such we rely on reports to see what we can't see ourselves. Please see this post: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/727768 ## What else? We try to submit big decisions to the community for input as much as possible, for example the merger of SXS communities was first put to a vote, and then further discussed to see how we should go about it. We hope you enjoy Lemmygrad, now it's your turn ;) tell us a bit about yourself!

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Announcements CriticalResist8 1y ago 100%
A new announcement on making reports 😁

Hi comrades, Lemmy (as a whole) has been blowing up due to a HUGE influx of new users. On Lemmy.ml they take care of 400 new account requests every day; that's also why their moderation is slow today, the devs need to focus on code more than moderation. I just want to go over how reports work because yes, you can report both **comments** and **posts** across the fediverse! To make a report, you just have to be logged into your instance and then click on the three vertical dots under a comment or post. Then, a few more icons will show up; click on the flag like here: ![](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/03dc4a1c-7aa0-4b2f-aea4-ab101911021a.png) Reports go to the following persons: 1. Your instance administrators. If you are on Lemmygrad, we see your reports. 2. The community's moderators. Currently, reports go to community moderators as well as admins of the instance the community is on. 3. Admins of the target's instance. Reports also show up for the admins of the instance the person you report is registered on. That means if you're from lemmygrad and report something on, say, news@lemmy. ml that was posted by someone from lemmy. world, all three admin teams will receive your report + the moderation team for news@lemmy. If we, lemmygrad.ml, delete something that's on lemmy.ml, it will only be deleted for our instance. People from other instances will still see that content. Therefore we tend not to delete stuff that's on other instances as it would only prevent us from further engaging with it and there's no point in that. Also be aware that when making a report, your username is passed on too. Reports are not anonymous. It's important to keep reporting stuff however, especially if they break other instance rules! On Lemmygrad, we take care of our reports and do delete and ban people appropriately based on reports: we (the admins) can't see everything ourselves. So remember, **if you see something, say something!**

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Announcements CriticalResist8 1y ago 100%
2023 demographics survey results in the link!
pastes.io

My post was too long so I had to post here: https://pastes.io/07p5nd9dxc Edit: first correction to the paste, our trans community is represented far above the general population. Around 11% of our community is trans, while in the world only 1% of people are. I also only gave absolute numbers for some reason in the paste so here's the percentage points: 10% trans women, 1% trans men, 7.7% nonbinary.

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Announcements CriticalResist8 1y ago 100%
2023 Demographics Survey is now closed

Edit: we might end up redoing the survey, please read [this comment](https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/438336)!! First things first, thanks to everyone that took the survey! So, one thing we were not aware of is that questionpro (the software we used to make the survey) only lets you have 300 responses to a survey before they close it. Obviously they would not tell you that before they sell you their 1200$ a year subscription. We reached that limit and can't access the data. Now they want us to email them to download this data, which I'm reluctant to do (but still might do) because of, you know, the whole communism thing. Also if we download the data we still need a way to visualise it. So yeah, sorry about that. I'd used questionpro before for a ProleWiki survey and picked it exactly because they didn't seem to have a respondent limit. I did save a screenshot of the analytics at the 301 mark, so we can still publish the results of the survey. However, I'm not sure there's any point in setting it up again for the few people that haven't taken it yet, considering they represent around 50 users or so. This survey was mainly made for fun and out of curiosity, so I'm not sure it's worth trying to download the data, import it to another provider if we can (I was recommended framaforms), and hold the survey for the few people that didn't take it yet. At the same time, I totally get it would suck for the people who haven't had a chance to take the survey yet to be locked out from it. Regardless of any solution we find, we'll find a better provider for next year if we run this survey again.

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