Hello r/TheDeprogram friends!

I was one of the mods of our beloved community, and it’s truly lovely to see you all here! 🙂

First things first, I want to thank our friends here at Lemmygrad (along with Hexbear.net and Lemmy.ml) for being so great and providing us with such an amazing place to reconnect. Thanks to them and their efforts at ProleWiki, we can still view our old Wiki here and our old Study Guide here. Of course, Lemmygrad also has plenty of other reading suggestions!

If you’re new to Lemmy, you can find great resources on which app to use and how to browse Lemmy in general right here.

The ban itself is frustrating. The other mods and I did our best to create a nice community for everyone, and we tried hard to avoid a repeat of r/genzdong. However, we didn’t expect the Reddit team to ban us immediately like that, without any warning or communication. I guess it shows how based we were as a community lol.

As of now, the other mods and I are waiting to hear about possible updates from the Reddit team regarding our appeals (which can be submitted here), but I would say to operate under the assumption that the ban could be permanent.

I have a lot more that I could say, of course, but I want to close with a more personal message: you all have been splendid! ❤️

I personally loved seeing you shitpost just as much as I enjoyed seeing you offer informative and educational answers in the sub. As someone who joined Lemmygrad after r/GenZedong was quarantined, it truly gave me hope to see so many new comrades (and some old ones with their alt accounts too haha) join us at r/TheDeprogram every day. It really helped remind me that regardless of how many subreddits and communities get shut down for being too inconvenient to the people on top, they cannot stop people from being curious, looking for answers, and creating their own communities in any way they can.

I will see you all around!

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
      28·
      8 days ago

      Lemmy.ml is majority ML, with some anarchists, liberals, etc. The admins are all ML I believe. Instances that are federated with Lemmy.ml are far worse, except for Grad and Hexbear, so Lemmy.ml is a constant argument fest. I use it to try to bring some libs over to our side, but if I want to actually enioy my time I spend it here or on Hexbear.

    • Samsuma@lemmy.ml
      16·
      8 days ago

      welcome comrade :)

      the .ml userbase is generally strongly left-leaning. That said, there are MLs amongst us, admins of the instance like Dessalines and Nutomic (whom also develop Lemmy) are MLs themselves.

      it’s hard to put to words, but the instance is treated like the “main hub” of lemmy content that connects other instances via federation, so you’ll have users from .lemmygrad, .hexbear, .world (the reddit 2.0 fashlib known around these parts), .dbzer0, etc… posting and interacting in the same space more than .ml users do.

        • Samsuma@lemmy.ml
          10·
          8 days ago

          lol

          It might be difficult to grasp at first but it’ll “click” soon! There isn’t a direct analogy that comes to mind but for lemmy specifically, I think of it like email in reddit format along with its phpbb forum mannerisms.

          • mymyredpanda@lemmygrad.ml
            8·
            8 days ago

            It honestly feels like a weird form of discord with the servers and stuff its lot more chill I got mastodon , blue sky and lemmy now and they are WAY less batshit insane then twitter rn

        • subversive_dev@lemmy.mlEnglish
          9·
          8 days ago

          Welcome Comrade!

          I think the way to understand how it feels to be on the fediverse is to think of each server like a country. Each one has their own customs, laws, and communities (aka subreddits). Over time people self-select onto servers that they ideologically align with.

    • TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml
      11·
      8 days ago

      Lemmy.ml is the instance used by the developers of Lemmy to test patches but otherwise works like any instances and you don’t need to be one to join (I’m not).

      Dessalines is the main/original developer and you can read a lot of their political views on their GitHub page but to give you a quick answer yes they are Marxist!

      • mymyredpanda@lemmygrad.ml
        14·
        8 days ago

        Thank god at least lemmy has some leftist working on it and not wacky nazis like Elon running twitter or wtf Reddit is run by now ( CIA )

        • FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml
          3·
          6 days ago

          Even if Lemmy was run by a piece of shit, anyone could just modify the source code and make their own version. Plus, Lemmy is an implementation of the ActivityPub Protocol, and there are many Projects out there that speak ActivityPub: https://fediverse.party/

          You can think of ActivityPub as being similar to E-Mail; It’s not like Gmail Accounts can’t send messages to Accounts on Outlook or vice versa, they can, because they both speak a common Protocol that predates both of those Providers.

          People on Mastodon or Pleroma Instances can follow Communities on Lemmy and can read, favorite or repost Posts like this one.

          • mymyredpanda@lemmygrad.ml
            4·
            5 days ago

            Thanks for the info Been using open source and free software like gnu/Linux for a while but I never really thought that much of fediverse until recently Good to be on it

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
      9·
      8 days ago

      lemmy.ml and lemmygrad are run by the same people iirc, the developers of lemmy. i think .ml is supposed to be less focused on politics, but we are generally majority leftist with a couple libs here and there.

    • John@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9·
      8 days ago

      I have accounts on both. While I like lemmygrad, I find it too restricting. Too many instances defederate from lemmygrad, and I can’t find some communities. I don’t know, maybe I’m doing something wrong, but I find lemmy.ml to be a good middle ground between use ability and Marxist content

  • TheBungTankie@lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    9 days ago

    Been Wondering, Ive Read On r/Trueanon and r/Shitliberalssay you Guys got Banned Because 4chan Mass Report it. I am Curious If 4chan ever find Lemmygrad lol.

    • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
      21·
      9 days ago

      They probably know about us but there is not that much they could do apart from maybe doxxing mods/admins/users or something like that. But then again anyone with too much free time could potentially find out who we are anyway, so 🤷🏼

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    9 days ago

    The early times after our own ban were kind of tumultuous as far as internet communities go, but over time we’ve created something that towers over what the subreddit was.