So what we expected finally happened.
Reddit quarantined (and might soon ban) the most active communist subreddit, and one of the very few non-western-supremacist ones left.
We’ve gotten dozens of new applications, and are approving them as quickly as we can.
Here are a few Lemmy mobile apps for Android and iOS, if you prefer using those over the web app.
If you have any questions, or if there’s anything we can help with, new ideas or communities, or anything that can make the transition away from stormfront easier, let us on the mod team know.
Reddit, Silicon valley, surveillance capitalism, bourgeois media, down with them!
Popular opinion: fuck nazis
missed you boo
Me too
They’re here!
All our friends are here
They can silence us as much as you can stop the winds themselves
Maybe we lost GenZedong, but we truly arrived to paradise. Finally a place to discuss properly
Fuck it. Most of my reddit usage for the past few years has been political. Between ChapoTrapHouse getting banned and now GenZedong getting quarantined (in prep for a ban, I’m sure), I might as well try and make a new home here.
Same. Not sure how it will go but if it’s going to be between myself and other marxists, I’m going to try and maintain a chilled tone and posting style. Like a hangout ig
As a former r/CTH poster and hexbear head, welcome to the club! 🍻 Having the rug pulled like this is truly chaotic, but it’s good news that y’all already have a backup ready and don’t have to do a month long hackathon while putting out constant fires in a 10,000 member Discord lifeboat. While the new website is nowhere near as busy as the former subreddit, the independence of having our own infrastructure developed and maintained by trusted comrades is worth it. At the end of the day, Reddit set us free.
I’m hoping things go as smoothly as possible for y’all. Also, Madeline Albright is dead! Let’s fucking go!
Good to see you here, Porkroll! This stuff’s come a long way
Hey comrades! I was a lurker and a learner on r/GenZedong for the past few months, I’m looking forward to hanging out here with you guys! (Hopefully I will be less shy this time)
No probs, welcome!
Welcome
Hello, friends! Times are uncertain and in flux but I look forward to this journey with all of you.
As one of the older GenZedong users (I honestly thought it meant “General” Zedong like some kind of militant movement, sorry for crashing your kiddie table) I remember when we all had to gather on niche forums or Usenet or gasp! email discussion lists. Modern social media is convenient, having everything in one place, but that also makes us very vulnerable when those who own the commons decide to crack down.
The corporate coup d’etat is complete and no longer even hidden. It will take some effort, but we can still be together in comradeship and good intention. Let us look at it as opportunity, rather than setback.
This. The fact that we had been able to stay on a fed-controlled centralized platform for so long is a miracle, but what this shows now is that we’ve become relevant enough to be dangerous.
Yep, we can’t forget that principled communists will always be at the forefront of science and tech fields. Reddit and silicon valley might be a profit-making machine for now, but they can’t beat us in the long run… history and humanity are on our side.
Communism will win!
I honestly thought it meant “General” Zedong like some kind of militant movement
💀💀💀
Pretty insane what lengths they’ll go to protect Nazis
pretty on-brand for reddit though
we need hexbear emojis in lemmy so bad
just deleted my reddit account feels good
Reddit, down with them!
CIA funded hellsite made to promote fascist ideology.
They will burn in hell.
It genuinely does scare me, because as principled communists we still need to agitate where the masses are, and do everything we can to prevent them slipping into anti-communism. But it increasingly looks like that’s going away… US media is doing everything it can to push us into WW3 with Russia and China.
first they came for the communists…
hopefully this is a wake up call, I implore other leftist subreddits to delete there subreddits in solidarity and move to better platforms.
No representation is better than misrepersentation.
of course the media wants WW3, its good for ratings
That movie Network from the 1970s, we need another one of those made.
hey ^ ^ sad that we can no longer be rent-free in reddit’s head but happy to be here. not surprised to see that a sub like gzd gets quarantined but all the hate subs are free to continue spreading their shit
/r/theredpill and /r/conspiracy come to mind.
Honestly I was waiting for this happen as the lurker I was for the past year, because I didn’t want to post on Reddit anymore. thank you mods and people who worked to build this lemmy instance a long time ago so we could bounce back quickly.
We’re doing the best we can to approve the applications as fast as possible, but there’s a lot of them!
let me know if i can help, im an r/gzd and gzd discord mod and have a mastodon server so i’m familiar with This Kind Of Thing
Ngl this feels like it’s gonna be better then reddit.
Thx!
Well, that was a blast while it lasted.
Who would have thought we’d be toppled by Nato sanctions…!?
Lmao, it’s essentially what happened.
Yeah, quarantine is literally part of the toolbox for sanctioning certain types of attention for a given subreddit. They take that “attention is currency” stuff real seriously. Simulate a market by lending moderators attention from your users. Those simulations automate the process of creating and maintaining influencers and “communities”, which ideally maximizes the amount of attention you continue to engage with and give them. They’re rigging a market they control and if it starts to go bad for them they just cut you off.
Anybody just got their reddit account banned? My account for I don’t know 8+ years? 30k karma? Just got nuked in the middle of commenting in r/genzedong. So uninstalling this app now lmao
My account got an 3 day ban yesterday from reddit itself, i cant even comment or upvote or do anything at all on the sub, of all the moments they could have banned me, they decide to do it on r/GenZedong last moments. My disapointment is imesuarable, and my day is ruined :(
Same Mann I’m so pissed I can’t even say my last goodbye
omg I think I recognize you! You had the green Spanish flair right?
Yeah my name on reddit was u/Rafaell_Luisi, and i, for the love of marx, beg you to not say Brasil speaks spanish, its very annoying to see gringos confusing us with spanish people lol.
I hope the developers of this site can put an flair feature here, i loved so much the pun on that flair.
Yea I am ignorant here, is it Portuguese then? I don’t know the language so I can’t tell it apart…
Yeah its portuguese, i know that it can be confused with spanish because they sound very similar, but trust me they are pretty different. But it doesnt help the fact that portuguese is not an very famous language.
Rip dude, why? I’ve said some things and never gotten more than a temporary ban :/ sorry comrade
I got banned for 7 days since yesterday last week it was banned Permanently then I weirdly got my account back lol I made the account in 2015 when I was in HS
I hope I can at least get it back to delete the account or something, super weird.
Whoa, what was the reason given?
I don’t know. Got logged out and can no longer back in with the same password (saved on my computer). Logged out on the phone as well. Looking into my profile now says “this account has been suspended”.
I was banned because I harassed a Zionist
Good work.
Thank you for your service
Based
I got banned a month ago for saying that anarchists are fucking stupid, which the admins said was targeted harassment lmao. And I was pretty active on GenZ
I am active on the subreddit and I still didn’t get the ban, idk if i ever will but still, if i ever get ban, I am on this site.
If you mention Jessica Ashooh’s name and anything about her background, a shadowban is imminent.
Thank you, comrades. I’m glad to have joined this community.
Just FYI, we have anecdotal reports from people on Hexbear that Twitter and Facebook have also been wiping out and censoring leftist accounts/pages since yesterday. This is how it happens. They come in waves and seem to like getting it done in one big batch
Facebook is even worse than Reddit imo.
I’m gonna miss Communist Party of Facebook
Twitter and Facebook have also been wiping out and censoring leftist accounts/pages since yesterday.
It’s a good thing that mastodon exists.
