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[โ€“] barrbaric@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)
  1. lemmy's two main developers are marxist-leninists
  2. the largest and most active instance prior to the reddit exodus was hexbear, which is a "big tent" of revolutionary leftism, featuring mostly communists and some anarchists
  3. lemmygrad, an explicitly marxist-leninist instance, is also relatively large
[โ€“] beef_curds@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And to speak to grad and hexbear, a large part of the reason there are commies here is because they were driven off other platforms. Hexbear and Grad are both decendent from active communities that reddit banned.

Seeing all the scaremongering about those communities here reminds me of the old comic. :

I've literally never seen a better fit for this comic

It's like it was made for this specific moment lol

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