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[–] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Looks like we can add "blahaj zone" instance to the likes of sopuli and beehaw. As in "gits, who come here and comment with lib takes"

[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The admin of that instance has been friendly with lemmygrad users, but a lot of the new users on that instance are dronies.

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[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Pro-tip: Never look at an old man browsing history, youtube feed, etc....

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[–] Ancient_Might_5820@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 years ago

LEOPARD TANKS ARE FUCKING SHIT LMAO AAHAHAHAHHAHAAAA

[–] cfx_4188@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 years ago
[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 years ago

I really liked the Reddit protest the last few days. Only a few of my niche subs were still active and I liked the content I saw. It was so peaceful and quiet. Sadly a lot of the other subs came back on (peak Reddit 'activism', btw) so I left the app again.

[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was added to the lemmy maintainers private matrix chat. Shit is getting real.

[–] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there more you can say?

[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess the maintainers liked my contributions. It probably helps that I've helped them with the big websocket API removal and helped devs interested in contributing get their local environment set up.

[–] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago

That's awesome! Thank you for your service. o7

[–] AYJANIBRAHIMOV@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Amazing as always comrade

[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh man I am not liking this Reddit exodus

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lemmygrad is down every 7 minutes it seems

[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Yes and for some reason posts I made from 9 months ago are now getting weird hostile comments as well. Usually in standard Reddit 'tankie authoritarian bad' fashion as well. I don't mind new users but the moment this place turns into another Reddit I'll probably be out of here. I could've just stayed at Reddit itself for that.

[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Worst comes to worst we could always defederate.

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Lemmygrad admins:

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Its a common Reddit tactic to sort by most upvotes and then attack those posts /comments no matter how old they are. Its classic Reddit brain tactics.

I hate how liberals try to infect every place on the internet like it belongs to them.

[–] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago

Give it a few weeks, a couple months at most. The overwhelming amount of newcomers will get tired and leave again for Reddit; it's easier for them to accept the mediocre official app and the permanent disappearance of third party APIs than to accept opinions dissenting from mainstream liberal politics to exist in the same space as theirs without repression.

[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago

I doubt that'll happen, most liberal instances block us and we can just ban individual anticommunists from lemmy.ml when they comment

[–] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hearing libertarian leftists mention the Spanish Civil War and explain it as "the Soviets betraying anarchists" to justify their beliefs, as someone who actually had it in his school curriculum, is a level of pain that I wish to no one. No mention of their war industry mismanagement, no mention of their botched justice system, no mention of their military ineptitude at the Aragon front and most importantly, no mention of the actions of nonchalant sabotage against the broader Republican front (the real force against fascism) that led to the May Days of 1937.

Fantasizing about a romantisized picture of brave anarchist freedom fighters being stabbed with a dagger in the back by the devilish tankies dressing in cloaks is and will always be more adequate than picking up a book and actually learning about their movement's past, be it with Catalonia, with Makhno's Ukraine or absolutely anywhere else.

The fun part of it is that, because of it, you always have the chance of catching anarchists by surprise by showing them their own history and seeing them not knowing what to do. Next time you find one searching for trouble, ask them about Makhno's history with Mennonites.

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[–] frippa@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Xi turns 70 today 🍾

Best wishes for him

[–] CommieBeetle@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Kulaks deserved worse

[–] Rasm635u@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago
[–] frippa@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Silvio Berlusconi, dipshit conservative neolib is now, finally, dead, after 20 years of presidency that destroyed Italy (and unironically, lowered the iq, an interesting story) 🍾

Pls post your best crabs

[–] Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I leave for 3 days and I see that we've exploded in new, liberal users.

[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Luckily they're almost all on other instances (because of the vetting), and many of those instances have Lemmygrad blacklisted. This may also be an opportunity to radicalize some people who comment here in good faith

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[–] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm an early zoomer (you know, genZ-edong) already living in adulthood. Not long ago I was thinking about that time of my teenage years in which I spent way too much time on the internet, during that era ranging from rage faces, nyan cat and the golden age of creepypastas until the peak in popularity of cringe culture youtube channels, all while browsing completely unsupervised. If you are any like me, you will be familiarised with the feeling that you would like to tell your past self to get off the computer, thinking that probably doing so would have saved you from many problems and made your future life somewhat easier.

It has been however only now as I have rejoined internet communities (yes, such as lemmygrad) that I have noticed that the later members of gen Z seem not only to be commiting the same mistakes I myself did, but more severely and with a much greater dependency on the internet than I ever had, neglecting to a worrying level the development of skills as basic as socialization and critical thinking. Is it just me who is becoming a grumpy old man yelling at clouds, or does anyone else share the same concerns?

[–] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As one such ‘later’ zoomer, that is very true. Most of us are very alienated. I know some people who spent over half of their day on their phone when they’re not in school. I personally have to force myself to actually read, and talk to people, but I’m making some progress. I’m somewhat lucky for my attention span’s sake that I was a Redditor (no longer) and not a Tiktoker, as that seems to drain brains faster.

[–] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Tik Tok's format is something that I find terrifying, and even more than the rest of internet social media is trying to follow it, such as with Youtube and its shorts. The fact that instant gratification is being promoted for profit so badly that we have now a flow of videos with Subway Surfers gameplays on the side not to lose watchers' attentions is simply sinister.

At least back then we fried our neurons watching things like these for three and a half minutes without blinking instead.

[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago

My brain is destroyed from the internet.

[–] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This reddit exidus is starting to get a little old. I do not think I have seen this many liberals in the grad for quite some time

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[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Daily reminder to go and read theory.

[–] CarlMarks@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I recommend reading my book The Capitol.

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[–] Oppo@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hope you all have a great week :D

[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago

"you too"
-- V. I. Castro

[–] Socialisminmind@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Any good books on the white terror period?

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[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago

A while ago I posted how a Belgian province declared the strike ban issued by Delhaize Supermarkets illegal, and how the employees who had been striking for weeks were in the right. Today, a second province joined this decision to declare the ban illegal as well. It seems that this is going to happen in every province and that Delhaize is taking a massive L.

This is a huge win for the working class, and strikes will probably continue soon.

[–] Darkerseid@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago

downvoted for speaking truth lmao. the orange site

[–] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Last week eastern North America was plagued by smoke for multiple days thanks to forest fires in Canada. Anyone who thought the west would be free from the environmental crisis, so they could keep on polluting was wrong.

[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago

My landlord just increased rent smh 😤 so we'll bounce to a cheaper place. It's not that we can't afford it anymore but the place has some issues, and his new monthly rent feels like an insult.

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I've archived an issue of На Стройке from 1949, hope you'll enjoy it

[–] MochiGamer@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I couldn't reply to message in a community outside of Lemmy/lemmygradand was so confused... Till I found our you can check modlogs and WOW there are a lot of people in that modlog blanketly banning "tankies". I'm actually upset I got banned for being a "borderline" tankie. Dang it I wanted the full tankie ban what is this shit.

[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Also keep in mind many instances defederated us.

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