A couple of users on the genzedong matrix chat expressed concern over Lemmygrad's lack of privacy policy. Lemmy already supports setting legal information in the site admin settings (although it's hard to find the legal page if you don't already know about it since there are no links to there).

It could also be worth letting admins on other instances know about this feature, as I'm sure many of them would want to add privacy policies to their instances as well.

A community dedicated to critical left unity and the synthesis of ideas. Everyone is welcome here, but, please avoid uncritical or unproductive sectarianism.

(Please read the rest of their sidebar as well to get a feel)

We as Marxists (regardless of whether ML, trot, Maoist, etc) I believe tend to universally uphold the notion that left-unity is not Marxist. That we practice only Marxist-unity (and with plenty of criticism amongst ourselves at that for non-ML's especially that often goes as far as exclusion for those who don't support AES at least critically).

To put it bluntly: I do not want people who practice left-unity to get a beachhead or toehold here with a dedicated community.

There is an anarchist alternative (raddle), at least one anarchist instance to my recollections on lemmy itself and most liberal and left leaning instances on lemmy allow anarchists but explicitly ban Marxists.

In other words, this is our one, singular space which these people are now pushing into. We should not cede an inch of it to allowing non-Marxists and those who discourage vicious criticism and yes even venting and sneering and meming on of the compatible-left, the CIA-left, the synthetic-left and other such names.

I'll note that hexbear is basically a left unity platform and will be federating with us shortly. They tolerate and allow anarchists and discussion between them and ML's so such content would be better there.

I believe at any rate that anarchists are not disallowed from here if they're here to ask honest questions and not just spew imperialist propaganda and anti-communist, anti-AES dogma. Thus the community serves as nothing more than an attempted safe-space for anarchists and other deviations (left, right, etc), a safe harbor from site rules and standards.

Not sure if it violates Lemmygrad's rules.

With the sleepless one's new bots and other AI's out there, I think it would be nice to have a storage for every interesting autogenerated picture

Under the name @Academicproletarian he sent me this message:

Hey, comrade! I see you are an editor on ProleWiki, that's super great!

Let's get down to brass-tacks. I'm the Chief Commissar of the Internal Security Group of ProleWiki. I myself have banned millions of people from our great echo-chamber.

I've just been ordered personally by our great founder Forte to improve our page on Stalinism. It turns out that Stalinism, or more fully, Marxism—Leninism—Stalinism (MLS) really does exist as an ideology.

As such, he wants us to rewrite our incorrect page on Stalinism to indicate that it really does exist. He also told me to use this excellently-written writing on MLS as a reference. This writing was made by a genius pioneer of Wisconsinite Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist theory. Thus it is a VERY good source.

Thank you!

It seems that they're going after ProleWiki again, (in this case attempting to have the "Stalinism" page "corrected."

As I said in a comment on the post asking about this community (and pinged the creator), I would give them the rest of Monday to get back to us about this community and their reasoning, and they never got back to me. Nor did they get back to anyone on that posted memes to that community, nor did they ever post anything in their two months here apart from creating that community.

Plus there's already a c/trotskyism community.

The account feels suspicious but obviously at this time we have nothing to go on and so will not ban OP.

As a general rule, be wary -- but not paranoid -- if someone DMs you for reasons that seem strange. Like if they ask a lot of questions from the get go or want to get to know you. Remember you don't have to answer anything you don't want to and you don't have to provide justification for it.

It seems someone has created a /c/trotskyists community. I believe this community should be removed for what I think are obvious reasons.

Very good job on the part of community mods who backed up and deleted their communities pre-emptively.

I went ahead and deleted the last few communities, which had just 6 posts on them on average.

From now on, please only post to !shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml and !shitultrassay@lemmygrad.ml. Please do not make new "Shit X Say" type communities.

Two communities were archived, these are Shit Liberals Say and Shit Fascists Say. They were made "mod-only", which means you cannot post there but can still comment on existing posts. We decided to archive them by popular demand and because there were so many posts on them people didn't want to lose.

For those out of the loop, we are merging all "Shit X Say" communities into just two: !shitliberalssay@lemmygrad.ml and !shitultrassay@lemmygrad.ml.

From this moment: users are not allowed to make new communities in the "Shit X Say" vein and should not post in any "Shit X Say" community that is not one of the two above.

7 days from now: we will delete the extra communities (all except the 2 above)

If you mod a Shit X Say type community, back up the posts before we delete them. Just copy the URL as they are not entirely deleted from the server, just hidden.

We also recommend you put your communities on mod only so that people don't inadvertently post new content there (just click on this icon and then check the "make community mod only):

Or alternatively, pre-emptively delete your community if you've backed up the posts.

For now we will place everything in Shit Liberals Say, which should become Shit Reactionaries Say, but there's discussion about just making a Shit Reactionaries Say community. Personally I'm not sure which is best. There's 1.5k posts on SLS and we would basically lose all of them, but at the same time it might confuse people to post to Shit "Liberals" Say about monarchists or fascists.

The merger is going along nicely and I will soon announce the grace period (after which we will delete all SXS communities except for SLS and a Shit Ultras Say community that will be created).

Most mods of the soon-to-be deleted communities have given me their approval for deletion and have already backed up their post URLs.

However, SLS is not responding. We want to merge (most) everything into that community as the name is easily recognisable and it's the biggest community for that, meaning they wouldn't have to back up the hundreds of posts that were made there.

At this time however only one mod of SLS, @AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml is somewhat still active on Lemmygrad -- and they haven't got back to me regarding the merging, which will probably make SLS much more active.

What I'm proposing to the community then is that all the mods of soon-to-be deleted communities be named mods of SLS. Easiest solution in my opinion.

After the merger is complete, there will only be two communities allowed for Shit X Say types community: SLS, renamed Shit Reactionaries Say, and Shit Ultras Say. All other communities of this type will not be allowed anymore.

As the lemmygrad community was heavily in agreement of merging our many (~10) "Shit X Say" communities into one, we are moving forward with that.

But here I'm proposing the last call to make your voice heard before we start deleting stuff.

Our proposition is to have 2 communities :

• Keep ShitLiberalsSay for all things from reactionaries and non-communists, because it's a big and active community
• Create a new ShitUltrasSay community for all things from "leftists", e.g. MLMs, anarchists, trots, patsocs, ultras, leftcoms...

The merger will look like this (again still a proposition):

• In a first step, a grace period of several days is allowed so that you can save content from all the deleted communities. We'll also announce which communities will be merged where.
• In a second step, we will delete the superfluous communities. This means all their content and comments will be deleted from the front end, but still accessible via direct link.
• In a third step, we have to assign the new ShitUltrasSay community (not yet created) to someone. I'm not entirely sure about how to solve that yet. If all the current mods of Shit X Say community want to pitch in and decide between themselves if they want to mod together or something.
• After that, we will clarify in the main sidebar that everything should be posted in those two communities and we will delete all new communities that bear the Shit X Say label that can fit into one of the two existing communities.

All inputs welcome of course.

Going along with the theme of this thread yesterday, the admin team here has decided to remove these two communities.

Not only are people getting tired of seeing cringe / reactionary content fill up lemmygrad, but it doesn't create a very welcoming atmosphere for new people, or those wanting to sign up, to see a bunch of reactionary content / hate speech directed at you.

We don't want to host that content, or make other people see it.

We'll evaluate these cringe-type / reactionary-content communities on a case-by-case basis, to decide if they should stay or not. Feel free to comment any below that you think should probably be removed.

Stay vigilant comrades, and if you see too much reactionary content being posted to lemmygrad, report it and we'll get to it as soon as we can.

<3

There are a lot of "Shit X Says" communities now, which inevitably leads to quite a few cross-posts and makes people less likely to see others' comments (e.g. someone comments on a "Shit Liberals Say" post, someone else on the "Shit Fascists Say" version of the post, etc.). It might be a good idea to just have one "Shit Reactionaries Say" community, either by creating a new one or by repurposing the most popular one (SLS), and then setting the other communities to only allow mod posts (basically read-only).
~Thank\ you\ for\ coming\ to\ my\ TEDxLemmygrad\ talk.\ Proposal\ co-authored\ with\ a\ second\ mysterious\ tankie~

Addendum: may be a good idea to also have one community for ultra-leftists separate from the one for general reactionaries.

It was on a post on the recent Argentinian victory in the world Cup, as a lot of Argentinians are Italian or Italian descendants, I made a joke about Argentina being an "Italian nation" and a mod Removed it as "Argentina is not Italian" now, I don't know you but I got taught geogerapy in elementary school, I obviously know Argentina is not Italian, and it ws pretty obviously a joke, so I'm asking for clarifications.

If you see around any individual interacting with others through strange antics, displaying weird or troll-like behavior, bot behavior, or similar, either on Lemmygrad or Lemmy, feel free to publish a people's court case about them if you think they are negatively affecting the Lemmygrad community as a whole.

The usual best way to fight trolls is indifference. So if you think someone is constantly annoying, please block them, and if possible, publicly express your dissatisfaction, so that everyone is aware.

Some trolls like Wisconcom can cause a major disruption in our community, and that's when we usually step in debating about the issue publicly. You are free to do so in People's Court as well, it's the place to collectively solve perceived problems within our community. You are also free to criticize the actions of the administrators,[^1] under public scrutiny.

[^1]: criticize our actions, not our political positions. This would be perhaps more appropriate in Leftist Infighting

For full transparence we are announcing it here.

Our reasons were that it seemed like it was made to bash people for their appearance. This is not something we want to bring to Lemmygrad; All of us here have been able to foster a generally positive attitude in this community and we want to keep it that way.

There's not much more to say but if you have questions you can ask them in the comments here.

They got banned but they are young I think so maybe they could be forgiven.....

The problem

471 communities on lemmygrad but many are inactive. We want to revitalise them and make them active again!

The solution

We're gonna give communities with inactive moderation to you, the users. This will allow you to edit the sidebar, sticky posts, and in general provide a sense of pride and accomplishment.

The goal is that you will do something with the community to help it be active if it's not, which includes posting there. But no stress, we're not setting up quotas.

You can claim any community if:

• the moderator or moderators have not been active for 6 months or more.
• the community is moderated by one or more administrators of Lemmygrad.

For example, you could claim !me_ira@lemmygrad.ml because one moderator is an admin, and the other two have not been active over a year.

A community can be active in posts and you can still have it, the only criteria we look at is moderation presence.

How to do that

To claim your community, post a comment here detailing:

• a link to the community you'd like (you can use the ! character to link automatically as you type, just give it a second to load)
• also notify the current moderator/s (you can tag them with the @ character). Some may just be lurking.
• why you are able to claim it
• what your plans are for this community and
• why you would be a good fit for it

We are looking to give communities to non-moderators first.

What happens next

We review your application, it's not an automatic grant. We wait for the owner/s to say something and if they don't, then we'll name you as mod alongside them first (you will need to comment somewhere in the community for us to do that). Down the line if you feel like it, we can talk about making you sole moderator.

Some context if you're interested in that

We have many legacy communities from the creation of lemmygrad and then the great Genzedong migration from 6 months ago (which is why it's our cutoff point). At the same time, us admins were the most active users on the site for a long time and so we created a lot of communities too as they were needed.

We are moving towards self-moderation and as the site grows, the admins should take a step back in moderating content. We also hope that we can revitalise those communities that have been left to abandon to increase the content (both in quality and quantity) on lemmygrad.

(This post has been heavily edited to cut down on length)

In light of user Wisconcom's community Hoxhaism (created using an alternate account named Ouisconkom), and the anti-China/anti-Mao sectarianism that permeates the rhetoric of the community. It has come to our attention that some members of the community are unhappy with this sort of content being allowed.

In the past, we've removed other Ultra-leftists, such as Patriotic Socialists, for their sectarianism. And some of the admins feel this might be a time to do that again.

Lemmygrad's success depends on transparency and communication between the user base and the admins, so we would like the Lemmygrad community to tell us how they feel about this possible issue.

Original message: GenZedong users and moderators warned the Lemmygrad administration of chauvinists and people who harassed other users creating a community called Dongistan. Admins from both Discord and Telegram warned us of these reactionary elements and they were preemptively removed from the community

EDIT: We were working on the assumption that they were PatSocs, because that was the information given to us, and we decided to act upon that without further evidence. It was a mistake on our part. The community was therefore restored, but we are investigating the case further.

We are banning trolls which were harassing admins and other members inside Lemmygrad, and we've found out that they are a part of a group called "Horde's People's Republic of Dongistan" on Telegram.