For those who don’t know, Reddit announced they would start asking outrageous prices for API access, which will essentially kill off all third party apps.
We’ve received quite a few new account requests after this announcement, and expect to receive more, so this post is aimed at you, prospective lemmygrad member!
We’ll go through each account application with due diligence, but we would like you to know before you request an account that Lemmygrad is a Marxist instance, principally Marxist-Leninist. We like Stalin and we uphold the DPRK’s sovereignty and legitimacy over the whole of Korea. We love China’s Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.
You can always request an account but you will likely be disappointed in your browsing experience if we approve you and you find yourself surrounded by MLs if you are not one.
Up to a few seconds ago, our tagline said “leftist communities” instead of “marxist communities” on join-lemmy, and I’m guessing that’s why many non-marxist socialists wanted to join us.
You might prefer lemmy.ml or hexbear.net, although hexbear is not federated with anyone yet.
Yeah pretty much lol, but hex is more left unity and we’re (mostly) strictly marxist, specifically ML. We let in people if their answers are good but centrists or pure libertarians like the couple we’ve had would definitely prefer other instances altogether.
Yeah, I did two identical discussion posts about the LTV on Lemmygrad and Hexbear, and the results were very interesting. I had four or so comments here on Lemmy that were basically discussing and having a civil debate over how people in sales and advertising do or do not create value, and some talk about art. On Hexbear though, I just got a few people giving brief, badly summarized explanations of the labor theory of value and basically just said “maybe” and “IDK” to my inquiries, which isn’t really helpful because I was wanting more discussion, and I obviously already know the LTV.
This isn’t conclusive or anything, but yeah, my example definitely highlights a difference in the userbase and communication of the different communities.
I just checked out that thread you made here, and that’s some amazing content. I’ve literally been here for a day and I’m already dreading a potential drop in the quality of our discussions. Fingers crossed we continue to contribute and expect such quality.
I was curious to see the Hexbear responses as well, and as they aren’t federated yet, would you mind sharing a link here, please?
Sure. Here is my identical post on Hexbear.
The “discussion” that takes place is ambiguous at best, however, it didn’t get too many views. It seems theory-type posts like that wouldn’t do so well. (Again, most likely because of differing attitudes and communities)
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I am debating making a hexbear account, im just not sure how they enforce the left unity thing
I encourage you to see for yourself. It’s hard to explain.
Thus far I have held my tongue on HexBear as I have had very limited exposure to the site’s content. But since it seems to not be a mischaracterization I will say when I have looked on there it seems quite immature.