45 minutes ago, long-time user Rondomi posted a topic on the Comradeship space titled "On Paraphilia".

This will be the only surviving trace of that thread which has been scrubbed away, a single screenshot that instantly gives away what their topic is really about (and proves that this topic did exist):

In this long screed that we will not be copying from (and that you won't be either, just in case you saw that thread and what was in it), they make the defense of pedophilia under semi-clinical terms wielded like a wobbly club.

They conflate terms like "paraphilia", which is a blanket clinical term used by therapists to determine how to help their patients, with pedophilia itself. We don't have any illusions about engaging with their blatant defense of pedophilia, so that is where we will leave our argumentatio

I reported that, but no action was taken.

Calling for ethnic cleansing of Kurds at the hands of Islamic fascists should be against the rules... right?

Not sure that anything rule-breaking has happened, just pushing the "this seems like weird wrecker shit" button early.

https://lemmygrad.ml/c/noidpol

Otherwise, it's gonna be left inactive

@[email protected] is a good contender

Basically as title, I wanted to hear if posts such as below are acceptable, since as it stands, it doesn't break any of Lemmygrads rules. Frankly, the post is very weird to me, and the comments are bizarre. People talking about how they want to "dominated" by a 14 year old is imo not okay, especially not when it's on a post of a drawing of a child with clear undertones. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the post since I'm not an evangelion fan, but I thought it was noteworthy enough to bring up here.

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5810839

EDIT: The post has been removed, so I guess that's a no?

Looks like the mod of it hasn't logged in for a year. I'm not asking you to remove them, just make me a mod also.

To make things more neat, you can remove the BSD-ML (/c/bsd) and Space News communities that I moderate.

Please and thank you. :)

EDIT: Two responses from admins who dishonestly reframed the events of my ban and apparently refuse to explain it. Apparently "long time users" get different treatment.

EDIT2: The reason was finally given that "Have you stopped beating your wife?" in response to someone trying to put words in your mouth and ask loaded questions is a banworthy set of words. Incredible I know.

I would like explanation for the thinking that led to me being recently banned and branded a racist.

I was randomly attacked by a bad faith troll who later let slip that she was bearing a grudge based on some other encounter from 8 months ago. The attack consisted of an attempt to paint me as a racist for this simple and honest reading error.

I am a principled Marxist Leninist, active in real life and any reading of my contributions will support this and refute this slur on my character.

I can, at most, stretch to

You might have been able to infer this from the title, but I don't believe this community is a good fit for Lemmygrad.

For obvious reasons.

I chanced upon another piece of software that includes support for Ukraine on their homepage: pandoc.org, previously saw it on www.vim.org. There are apparently lots of projects on GitHub that do this too: StandWithUkraine. The same cannot be said for Palestine.

So people of Lemmygrad, should we include the flag of Palestine as a banner? Support could also shown in other forms, as long as it's immediately obvious that it's for Palestine.

We've always noticed something odd with user @[email protected], but we haven't formalized any space for discussion about them.

People have noticed they are apparently collecting info about us and our community. Have you interacted with this user? What do you think about it?

Edit: there is a bug with this change but it's only visual. If you submit a comment, it will say "Couldn't find comment". Refresh the page and your comment will show up.

The new Lemmy update introduces a feature that was starting to get requested a lot, which is that community moderators can make their community either visible or local only.

In the local only setting, only instance users (so lemmygraders in this case) can interact with the community, which I assume to mean creating posts, commenting, and up/downvoting.

We've thus made this community local only as per the description, it is for Lemmygrad users and admins to discuss administrative issues in a more transparent manner. This means people whose account is not on Lemmygrad will not be able to comment here anymore.

This post comes as a result of a little talk we had on GenZedong's Matrix servers a couple of days ago and I thought it was a good idea to bring it as a proposal to discuss here.

There are some strange people in Lemmygrad. I bet you can think of one or two names when I say this. Honestly, I have nothing against it, I don't think anyone should as long as they cause no harm, and quaint characters being attracted to on-line left wing spaces is as much of a natural law as that day follows the night so there's nothing one can do even if they wanted anyway. However, one can tell by some behaviours that the strangeness of some of them come from being young. Too young. And I think it would be nice to limit our list of extravagant individuals to people with a somewhat developed prefrontal cortex, since I think that currently we have none of that.

As some of you may do too, I belong to the earliest sector of Gen Z. As such, it means that I was part of that experiment of giving unlimited access

Lemmygrad is not a large website. The statistics on the sidebar shows that it has around 10.5k users, with this number being considerably smaller in regards to its active users, with 1.11k users using the website in the last 6 months and half than that in the last month, with 591 users.

That is perfectly okay: the concept of a small, tight-knit community of active users with shared interests who can recognize each other frequently by name is an appealing one. However I personally think that on a site with a membership so small one should stop to think, before creating a community centered around certain topic, about the chances that exist for such to attract enough users and grow to the point needed to maintain a certain life. I would have imagined that it should be a matter of common sense, but it seems not everyone gets it, and as a result, Lemmygrad ends up full of extremely niche communities that have either no posts nor users except its creators or recieve content solely from the

We have two communities that seemingly serve the same purpose. TankieTunes is more active and Socialist music only has a single mod that hasn't posted in 4 years.

The owner has locked it to only allow them to post. That's fine, but all posts they've made so far they've also locked at zero comments to disallow the community to interact with those posts.

This goes against the purpose of lemmy(grad) in my opinion which is interaction and discussion. If the person behind this wants to post static things without feedback they'd be better served by hosting a website and hoping people stumble on it.

It's one thing for admins to lock posts at their discretion because of an nonconstructive turn to discussion or because it's an announcement and they don't want fighting over their rules that they've decided on. Likewise for mods to not allow comments on a rules post or shut down discussion when it becomes unproductive.

The content is also somewhat sketchy feeling. I admit it's true that there can be issues with female on male relationship violence not being taken seriously but such statistics are often pushed to silence and tamp down on the overwhelmin

Right now, we have /c/Introductions, but it only has one post from nearly a year ago. Would be cool if those who wanted to introduce themselves knew that there was a place where they can.

I just noticed that out of the 4 moderators of [email protected], 3 have been inactive since 2020/2021 (@[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], and along with the 4th mod (@[email protected]), all of them are the same moderators of [email protected].

I hereby make a request to become a moderator of [email protected], and to remove all 4 current mods.

My qualifications include:

• I am Chinese
• I like to fact check information

I hope other comrades will also step forward to help moderate [email protected].