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'''Lemmygrad''' is a principally [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist–Leninist]] instance of [[Lemmy (software)|Lemmy]] with [[Dengism|pro-China]] tendencies<ref>[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/668436 Please note Lemmygrad is a Marxist instance (principally Marxist-Leninist)!] by @CriticalResist8 (May 31, 2023) ''Lemmygrad''</ref> founded in August 2019. As of September 2023, the site is the fifteenth most popular instance of Lemmy,<ref name=":0">[https://the-federation.info/platform/73 Lemmy] ''the-federation.info''</ref> with it hosting nearly 50,000 posts and around 600 active users per month, although actual patterns of user activity varies.<ref>[https://lemmygrad.ml/ Lemmygrad.ml]</ref>
! colspan="2" |type=<small>Collaborative online encyclopedia,</small><small> wiki</small>
|language_count=7<ref group="note">However, most of the site is available in English, with the other language versions scarcely receiving any edits or updates. Some versions of ProleWiki in different languages, such as the Chinese ProleWiki, have not been edited in over half-a-year.</ref>|founding_date=<small>30 September, 2020</small>|founder=<small>[https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Comrade:Forte Felipe Forte]|key_people=<small>[https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Comrade:CriticalResist CriticalResist],[https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Comrade:MxAsh MxAsh],<ref group="note">Largely in a technical capacity.</ref><br>[https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Comrade:Jucheguevara Jucheguevara]|num_users=<small>325 (total)<br>15–20 (active editors)</small>|url=<small>prolewiki.org</small>|espoused_ideology=<small>[[Marxism-Leninism]]<br>Support for [[Actually existing socialism|AES]]</small>}}
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'''ProleWiki''' is a [[Marxist-Leninist]] collaborative encyclopedia founded in September 2020. It is based on the [[MediaWiki]] software.<ref name=":0">[https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/ProleWiki ProleWiki - ProleWiki]</ref>


ProleWiki spans several subjects, including information on history, current events, communist parties worldwide, and countries, as well as hosting a library of texts related to Marxism. The site is closely connected to another community on the online left, [[Lemmygrad]]. ProleWiki is available in several languages, but is most active in English.
Lemmygrad was founded at a time when Reddit was cracking down on communist<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/cmwnnd/rchapotraphouse_has_finally_been_quarantined_for/ /r/ChapoTrapHouse has finally been quarantined for their repeated rule breaking and constant incitement of left-wing violence.] /r/Conservative at Reddit. 6 Aug 2019.</ref> communities as a way for communists to have their own space free of corporate rules and ownership.
==History==
The following is a timeline of major events and developments which have taken place on ProleWiki.
===Founding and early development (30 September 2020 – 24 November 2021)===
ProleWiki was founded on 30 September 2022 by a user who went by the name of Felipe Forte, as well as other users of the internet forum Lemmygrad. The initial concept for ProleWiki originated as a reaction to the [[Liberalism|liberal]] bias found on [[Wikipedia]]. The then-sole administrator of ProleWiki, Forte would firstly attempt to attract editors via promoting the project on Lemmygrad as well as various Telegram groups and Discord server. The website faced several spam bot attacks and eventually established an "account request" system.<ref>[https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Special:RequestAccount Account request] page on English Prolewiki</ref>


The site was able to enjoy a spike of editors and general activity in the first few weeks of its existence, which prompted then sole administrator Forte to invite most editors into an administrative group.<ref>[https://en.prolewiki.org/index.php?title=Special:Log&offset=&limit=500&type=rights&user=&page=&wpdate=&tagfilter=&subtype= User rights log] ''ProleWiki''</ref> However, this strategy did not work out because of absenteeism and eventual lack of interest in the project from most of this first wave of editors. Eventually, the administration shrunk down to just those who continued to work in the project – CriticalResist, Jucheguevara and Andassol. This action was done in order to ensure ProleWiki would have a stable and effective administration. Andassol eventually left the administration in 2021 due to a busy schedule.
According to an unpublished paper from data researchers at Binghamton and Cyprus Universities, lemmygrad.ml ranked among the top "domains of [[Tankie|tankies]]" on the internet.<ref>{{cite journal |title=A Data-driven Understanding of Left-Wing Extremists on Social Media |last=Utkucan |first=Balcı |last2=Sirivianos |first2=Michael |last3=Blackburn |first3=Jeremy|url=https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.06981.pdf|journal=Unpublished; posted at ArXiv.org|accessdate=2023-07-23 |p=38}} Tables 11 and 12. See also text on pp. 23-25.</ref>
===Ideological conflicts on patriotic socialism (1 August 2022 – 27 September 2022)===
The internal condition of ProleWiki would remain relatively stable for most of early-to-mid 2022, with few notable conflicts within the editorship or administration, This status quo would be upset in August of 2022 when the inevitable creation of the page on Patriotic Socialism happened. The page noted Patriotic Socialism (with regards to the pseudo-socialist chauvinist ideology found in the United States of America) as being opportunist and revisionist. However, a few members of ProleWiki were Patriotic Socialist, including then-administrator Jucheguevara, and a conflict would start between the (very few) Patriotic Socialist and non-Patriotic Socialist elements within ProleWiki.


This conflict would result in the non-Patriotic Socialist attaining ideological victory over the Patriotic Socialist elements, with the anti-Patriotic Socialist viewpoint of the article persisting and relative peace would remain in regards to that article. A month after the initial conflict, in September, the administration was contacted anonymously with a tip that Jucheguevara conspired with the Infrared collective to make accounts on ProleWiki under false pretences so as to push a patriotic socialist agenda on the wiki.
== History ==


Following this revelation (and confirmation of the claim), Jucheguevara was banned on 27 September 2022. He was stripped of his powers as an administrator and his account banned from the project.<ref name=":9">[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/391777 "Jucheguevara has been removed from administrative positions"], by ProleWiki administrator Forte (27 September 2022) ''Lemmygrad''</ref>
=== Founding and early developments ===
===Banning of Wisconcom (28 September 2022 – 23 October 2022)===
Lemmygrad was founded in August 2019, with its first post being on the 17th of that month.<ref>[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1 Lemmygrad's first post]</ref>  
In June 2022, a user by the name of [https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Comrade:Wisconcom Wisconcom], who self-identified as a [[Hoxhaism|Hoxhaist]], joined ProleWiki and disagreed with the encyclopedia's stance on China and [[market socialism]] in August of that year.<ref name=":6">[https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Topic:X1agp9ljig0tt2cj Topic on Talk:Market "Socialism" is Capitalism] by Wisconcom (15 August 2022) ''ProleWiki''</ref> After weeks of an incessant ideological conflict within the editorship, the administrators first gave Wisconcom a moratorium to essentially stop editing articles about China or debate it, although Wisconcom was sometimes insulting or being disrespectful to other comrades in the editorship.


While this would permit some internal peace to develop within ProleWiki, ideological disputes would soon develop. After being warned multiple times about his behavior, Wisconcom claimed he "retired" and left the project of his own accord, but returned three days later along with a petition demanding extended user rights over ProleWiki. The administration rejected this petition as they deemed Wisconcom had not earned such privileges through his mere 5 months of being with the project, and further believed him too unstable for such a position due to the combative behaviour he exhibited several times both on Lemmygrad and Prolewiki.<ref name=":3">[https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Topic:X5jt5fmceilpdixv On the blocking of Wisconcom] by ProleWiki administrator Forte (23 October 2022) ''ProleWiki''</ref> Following a few more lengthy discussions about the petition, the administration would proceed to ban Wisconcom from the project due to the total breakdown of any possible dialogue and his past behaviour towards other users.
==== GenZedong migration ====
In March 2022, the [[GenZedong]] subreddit was quarantined on Reddit. As usual during a ban wave, it mostly targeted right-wing subreddits but a left-wing subreddit was added in the wave so that Reddit could claim they were impartial in their bans. Its accompanying communities of "GenZhou" (its educational outlet) and "GenZhukov" (its military history and tactics outlet) were banned, according to Reddit, for being used to evade the quarantine on GenZedong<ref>[https://old.reddit.com/r/genZhou GenZhou] on Reddit</ref><ref>[https://old.reddit.com/r/genZhukov GenZhukov] on Reddit</ref> despite being created prior to the quarantine.


Following this ban, Wisconcom attempted to create numerous alt accounts on ProleWiki and Lemmygrad along with releasing articles heavily criticizing the site and its community with fabricated facts.<ref>[https://www.hexbear.net/post/249519 Since November 2022, a very committed "anti-revisionist" has been trying to infiltrate and smear the name of Prolewiki online], by CriticalResist on Hexbear.</ref> This is the reason this individual and his subsequent ban are noteworthy in the history of ProleWiki.
Lemmygrad received a huge influx of users at that time and had to establish user account vetting as, at the same time, trolls from GenUSA (a pro-US imperialism, chauvinist community made in response to the growing popularity of GenZedong) were also making accounts to troll Lemmygrad.
== Ideology ==
 
ProleWiki adheres to Marxism-Leninism. The site supports [[actually existing socialism|actually existing socialist]] countries, and views China, [[Laos]], [[Vietnam]], [[Republic of Cuba|Cuba]], and [[Democratic People's Republic of Korea|DPRK]] as dictatorships of the proletariat.<ref>[https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/ProleWiki:Principles Working Principles of Prolewiki]</ref>
As a response to this huge influx of new users, the administrators of Lemmygrad made several posts to try and get them acclimated to Lemmygrad quickly, as it was different to Reddit in many ways (in the rules, the federation aspect, and the methods of moderating). Eventually, two moderators from GenZedong were made into site admins so there could be communication between the community of GenZedong and the administrators of Lemmygrad. One of them later agreed to leave the administration on amicable terms.
 
This increase in site activity was temporary and eventually subsided later in the year 2022. However, the c/GenZedong community on Lemmygrad remains the forum's most active community.
 
==== Denial-of-service attacks ====
Along with the migration of the GenZedong community, Lemmygrad suffered denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against it, taking down the site for a number of hours at some points between March and May. This prompted the administrators of Lemmygrad to switch to another hosting provider with better (D)DoS protection, as well as update the Lemmy code to patch the vulnerabilities the attackers were using.
 
==== Purge of the c/Hoxhaism community and banning of Wisconcom ====
In June 2022, a self-proclaimed Hoxhaist by the name of [https://lemmygrad.ml/u/wisconcom Wisconcom] would join Lemmygrad.ml. He would quickly center his posts around criticizing [[People's Republic of China|China]] specifically.<ref>[https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Wisconcom?page=1&sort=New&view=Comments Comments by u/Wisconcom on Lemmygrad.ml.]</ref> Other users of Lemmygrad, by and large supporters of the People's Republic of China ([[Dengists]]), began to argue with Wisconcom who did not budge on his views. Wisconcom was eventually banned from Lemmygrad for being overly combative after several user reports about his bad faith and insulting behavior,{{Cn}}although the founder of Lemmygrad later stated that he was banned for "ultra-leftism".<ref>https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/330430</ref>
 
Wisconcom quickly created another account under the name of Ouisconkom<ref>[https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Ouisconkom u/Ouisconcom at Lemmygrad.ml]</ref> and created the c/Hoxhaism community. The community he had created was being used almost solely to criticize China and not, as the administrators had expected, used to talk about Hoxhaism or [[Enver Hoxha|Hoxha]] to any notable extent.{{Cn}} A post was made looking for user input on this community<ref>[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/362912 The administrators want your opinion on the Hoxhaism community] on Lemmygrad</ref> and the general consensus was the community should either be repurposed, or completely deleted and the creator banned for ban evasion. Eventually, the Lemmygrad community was in agreement that Wisconcom should be banned and the Hoxhaism community repurposed. However, due to the functioning of the Lemmy software at the time, his banning also deleted the communities that he had created.{{cn}}
 
Later, Wisconcom would come back to Lemmygrad under different alt accounts trying to bait and stoke trouble within the community.<ref>[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/468504 RationalWiki made an article about us] on Lemmygrad</ref><ref>[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/468568 A message to Wisconcom] on Lemmygrad</ref><ref>[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/497025 Possible Wisconcom alt] on Lemmygrad</ref> His accounts were quickly banned again for ban evasion.
 
==== Lemmygrad.com copycat site ====
In September 2022, alleged [[Patriotic socialism|patriotic socialists]] of the [[Infrared]] community created lemmygrad.com, a website that was meant to copy Lemmygrad but with a "[[MAGA Communist]]" purpose.
 
The administrators of Lemmygrad, to protect their reputation, announced they had contacted lemmygrad.com's hosting provider on the grounds of copyright infringement (one of the only things they could do that went against the Terms of Services). The host replied very quickly and took down lemmygrad.com, although the domain name was still usable by its owner.
 
Presently, the domain redirects to a [[Transphobia|transphobic]] account on Twitter.{{cn}}
 
=== Formalisation of rules ===
In the same month of September, the administrators of Lemmygrad would formalize two rules they had always operated on:<ref>[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/379908 We have added two new rules] on Lemmygrad</ref>


== Structure ==
* ''No porn or sexually explicit content (even if marked NSFW).''
* ''No right-deviationists ([[Patriotic socialism|Patsocs]], [[National Bolshevism|Nazbols]], [[Strasserism|Strasserists]], [[Aleksandr Dugin|Duginists]], etc).''


=== Administration ===
The first rule was formalized by popular demand, although like most Marxist spaces, Lemmygrad did not allow pornography or other sexual nudity content from the start.
In its founding in 2020, ProleWiki functioned under the leadership of its founder and current administrator, Felipe Forte, but currently is also managed by CriticalResist. Since late 2022, the administrators represent an organ of decision making as well as of guidance towards the established goals of ProleWiki. The editors, once their account has been approved and as soon as they join the project, can request internal referenda and vote on them. Editors are often solicited to vote on new editor applications as well as get involved in the project.


For example, since February 2022 ProleWiki holds a book club that is entirely managed by an editor. This structure of "work groups" allows ProleWiki to rely on its 100% volunteer base (both in the editors and administrators) to help grow and maintain the project by letting them volunteer their time and effort in projects they enjoy. This eases the workload on the administration and lets it act more like a guide or auditor to make sure the principles of ProleWiki, as well as its mission statement, are still being followed.  
The second rule was also being operated on after some belligerent patriotic socialists attempting to create accounts on Lemmygrad and ultimately brought down the enjoyment the community had in using the website with their disruptive behavior.<ref>[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/239568 <nowiki>We have [re]instated the Dongistan community</nowiki>] on Lemmygrad</ref> However, it was formalized after lemmygrad.com was created as a basis to provide transparency to the community and make the banning of future patriotic socialists easier.


=== Relations with external forums and communities ===
=== Merging of "Shit X Say" communities ===
The ProleWiki administration has connections with ideologically-aligned communities on the internet, which most prominently include Lemmygrad (from which both of the two ProleWiki administrators, Forte and CriticalResist, hold moderatorship on that site<ref>[https://lemmygrad.ml/ Lemmygrad]</ref>). ProleWiki also maintains some links with communist content creators on Twitter.  
Shit X Say communities, popular on Reddit (ShitLiberalsSay, ShitRedditSays...) were quickly brought over to Lemmygrad. For a while, c/ShitLiberalsSay was the biggest community. Eventually though, many more such communities were created by users and often left to abandon. Other users started complaining about these many communities that also, they felt, polluted their timeline and prevented them from seeing things other than hateful content. As such it was decided based on popular demand that all communities following the "Shit X Say" format would be merged under just two communities: ShitReactionariesSay and Shit[[Ultra-left|Ultras]]Say. No other community of this type would be permitted on Lemmygrad after this.


== Criticism ==
== Ideology ==
===Stance towards Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and Hoxhaism===
Lemmygrad describes itself as "principally [[Marxist-Leninist]]" and supportive of "[[actually existing socialism]]". Users who do not entirely follow this line are allowed to some extent, may be subject to censorship and bans.  
ProleWiki, as a pro-AES (Actually Existing Socialism) encyclopedia, does not believe in the concept of social-imperialism,<ref name=":103">[https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Social-imperialism ProleWiki - Social-imperialism]</ref> which is at odds with [[Maoism|Marxism-Leninism-Maoism]] and Hoxhaism.
=== Disregard for the proletariat in AES countries ===
ProleWiki largely doesn't document the exploitation of the working class in the countries they deem as actually existing socialism. While documenting the economic exploitation of the workers in Western countries, they seldom do so of the East Asian countries of, for example, China. ProleWiki explains this by applying the theory of the Second Cold War, which believes that the USA is waging a second Cold War against China (as opposed to the USSR in the time of the first Cold War). Under this model and learning from the praxis of communists that lived through the first Cold War, ProleWiki holds that when communists publicly criticise socialist countries, they are not giving a nuanced analysis but are adding arguments to the arsenal of anti-communists.                   
===Anti-psychiatry page===
In 2021, Amicchan joined the project and wrote about many topics, with much of those edits going into a page about anti-psychiatry that they had made.<ref name=":1">[https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Psychiatry ProleWiki - Psychiatry]</ref> This gave rise to a large debate between the editorship as well as the administration, as one side did not want ProleWiki to be seen as an anti-science outlet, while others were open to the idea that communists should question psychiatry as well as document its abuses under capitalism.


Eventually, a productive dialogue was established and the page was split into two, with one documenting Psychiatry<ref name=":1" /> and another documenting the movement of anti-psychiatry.<ref>[https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Anti-psychiatry ProleWiki - Anti-psychiatry]</ref> Furthermore, a notice was added on the Psychiatry page to explain that the article was undergoing "an ideological dispute over its content" and one should "establish a consensus with comrades before making edits". After these two resolutions, neutrality was brought back to the page and after which ProleWiki has not received any more criticism on this page.
Lemmygrad has made necessary changes to its working principles in response to its growth over the years as a community.{{relevance}}{{clarify}}


==See also==
== References ==
*[[Lemmygrad]]
*[[Friends of Socialist China]]
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===Notes===
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Latest revision as of 18:59, 3 September 2023

Logo of lemmygrad.ml.

Lemmygrad is a principally Marxist–Leninist instance of Lemmy with pro-China tendencies[1] founded in August 2019. As of September 2023, the site is the fifteenth most popular instance of Lemmy,[2] with it hosting nearly 50,000 posts and around 600 active users per month, although actual patterns of user activity varies.[3]

Lemmygrad was founded at a time when Reddit was cracking down on communist[4] communities as a way for communists to have their own space free of corporate rules and ownership.

According to an unpublished paper from data researchers at Binghamton and Cyprus Universities, lemmygrad.ml ranked among the top "domains of tankies" on the internet.[5]

History

Founding and early developments

Lemmygrad was founded in August 2019, with its first post being on the 17th of that month.[6]

GenZedong migration

In March 2022, the GenZedong subreddit was quarantined on Reddit. As usual during a ban wave, it mostly targeted right-wing subreddits but a left-wing subreddit was added in the wave so that Reddit could claim they were impartial in their bans. Its accompanying communities of "GenZhou" (its educational outlet) and "GenZhukov" (its military history and tactics outlet) were banned, according to Reddit, for being used to evade the quarantine on GenZedong[7][8] despite being created prior to the quarantine.

Lemmygrad received a huge influx of users at that time and had to establish user account vetting as, at the same time, trolls from GenUSA (a pro-US imperialism, chauvinist community made in response to the growing popularity of GenZedong) were also making accounts to troll Lemmygrad.

As a response to this huge influx of new users, the administrators of Lemmygrad made several posts to try and get them acclimated to Lemmygrad quickly, as it was different to Reddit in many ways (in the rules, the federation aspect, and the methods of moderating). Eventually, two moderators from GenZedong were made into site admins so there could be communication between the community of GenZedong and the administrators of Lemmygrad. One of them later agreed to leave the administration on amicable terms.

This increase in site activity was temporary and eventually subsided later in the year 2022. However, the c/GenZedong community on Lemmygrad remains the forum's most active community.

Denial-of-service attacks

Along with the migration of the GenZedong community, Lemmygrad suffered denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against it, taking down the site for a number of hours at some points between March and May. This prompted the administrators of Lemmygrad to switch to another hosting provider with better (D)DoS protection, as well as update the Lemmy code to patch the vulnerabilities the attackers were using.

Purge of the c/Hoxhaism community and banning of Wisconcom

In June 2022, a self-proclaimed Hoxhaist by the name of Wisconcom would join Lemmygrad.ml. He would quickly center his posts around criticizing China specifically.[9] Other users of Lemmygrad, by and large supporters of the People's Republic of China (Dengists), began to argue with Wisconcom who did not budge on his views. Wisconcom was eventually banned from Lemmygrad for being overly combative after several user reports about his bad faith and insulting behavior,[citation needed]although the founder of Lemmygrad later stated that he was banned for "ultra-leftism".[10]

Wisconcom quickly created another account under the name of Ouisconkom[11] and created the c/Hoxhaism community. The community he had created was being used almost solely to criticize China and not, as the administrators had expected, used to talk about Hoxhaism or Hoxha to any notable extent.[citation needed] A post was made looking for user input on this community[12] and the general consensus was the community should either be repurposed, or completely deleted and the creator banned for ban evasion. Eventually, the Lemmygrad community was in agreement that Wisconcom should be banned and the Hoxhaism community repurposed. However, due to the functioning of the Lemmy software at the time, his banning also deleted the communities that he had created.[citation needed]

Later, Wisconcom would come back to Lemmygrad under different alt accounts trying to bait and stoke trouble within the community.[13][14][15] His accounts were quickly banned again for ban evasion.

Lemmygrad.com copycat site

In September 2022, alleged patriotic socialists of the Infrared community created lemmygrad.com, a website that was meant to copy Lemmygrad but with a "MAGA Communist" purpose.

The administrators of Lemmygrad, to protect their reputation, announced they had contacted lemmygrad.com's hosting provider on the grounds of copyright infringement (one of the only things they could do that went against the Terms of Services). The host replied very quickly and took down lemmygrad.com, although the domain name was still usable by its owner.

Presently, the domain redirects to a transphobic account on Twitter.[citation needed]

Formalisation of rules

In the same month of September, the administrators of Lemmygrad would formalize two rules they had always operated on:[16]

The first rule was formalized by popular demand, although like most Marxist spaces, Lemmygrad did not allow pornography or other sexual nudity content from the start.

The second rule was also being operated on after some belligerent patriotic socialists attempting to create accounts on Lemmygrad and ultimately brought down the enjoyment the community had in using the website with their disruptive behavior.[17] However, it was formalized after lemmygrad.com was created as a basis to provide transparency to the community and make the banning of future patriotic socialists easier.

Merging of "Shit X Say" communities

Shit X Say communities, popular on Reddit (ShitLiberalsSay, ShitRedditSays...) were quickly brought over to Lemmygrad. For a while, c/ShitLiberalsSay was the biggest community. Eventually though, many more such communities were created by users and often left to abandon. Other users started complaining about these many communities that also, they felt, polluted their timeline and prevented them from seeing things other than hateful content. As such it was decided based on popular demand that all communities following the "Shit X Say" format would be merged under just two communities: ShitReactionariesSay and ShitUltrasSay. No other community of this type would be permitted on Lemmygrad after this.

Ideology

Lemmygrad describes itself as "principally Marxist-Leninist" and supportive of "actually existing socialism". Users who do not entirely follow this line are allowed to some extent, may be subject to censorship and bans.

Lemmygrad has made necessary changes to its working principles in response to its growth over the years as a community.[relevant?][clarification needed]

References

  1. ↑ Please note Lemmygrad is a Marxist instance (principally Marxist-Leninist)! by @CriticalResist8 (May 31, 2023) Lemmygrad
  2. ↑ Lemmy the-federation.info
  3. ↑ Lemmygrad.ml
  4. ↑ /r/ChapoTrapHouse has finally been quarantined for their repeated rule breaking and constant incitement of left-wing violence. /r/Conservative at Reddit. 6 Aug 2019.
  5. ↑ Utkucan, Balcı; Sirivianos, Michael; Blackburn, Jeremy. "A Data-driven Understanding of Left-Wing Extremists on Social Media" (PDF). Unpublished; posted at ArXiv.org: 38. Retrieved 2023-07-23. Tables 11 and 12. See also text on pp. 23-25.
  6. ↑ Lemmygrad's first post
  7. ↑ GenZhou on Reddit
  8. ↑ GenZhukov on Reddit
  9. ↑ Comments by u/Wisconcom on Lemmygrad.ml.
  10. ↑ https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/330430
  11. ↑ u/Ouisconcom at Lemmygrad.ml
  12. ↑ The administrators want your opinion on the Hoxhaism community on Lemmygrad
  13. ↑ RationalWiki made an article about us on Lemmygrad
  14. ↑ A message to Wisconcom on Lemmygrad
  15. ↑ Possible Wisconcom alt on Lemmygrad
  16. ↑ We have added two new rules on Lemmygrad
  17. ↑ We have [re]instated the Dongistan community on Lemmygrad

Notes

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