I'm alright with my lemmygrad account. As I said in my edit, the brainrot is mindnumbing in those instances. I love lemmygrad, I'm an extremely passionate Marxist. The community here is so great I'd love to discuss things other than ML philosophy and really make it a Reddit replacement here.

Lol I saw that thread. I know liberals are sensitive, but goddamn. I was talking (or trying, I think I was blocked due to activity in lemmygrad) about joining an instance that has us blocked.

They'd rather plug their ears and cover their eyes than critically think and inquire about why we feel the way we do.

It is a shame. I was trying to help OP out, but I think they might have blocked me individually, maybe through a mass ban of individuals in a thread they found on lemmygrad. As for the instances that have already blocked us, it's unlikely they will ever federate with us again.

Perhaps the devs could implement a "soft" ban as an alternative to outright removal from federation. Censoring a comment or thread created by a user from the targeted instance with a confirmation click to view. I'm sure a lot of these QoL features will be added when the devs get through the enormous backlog, which has only been growing larger due to the influx of new users.

Will do, can't wait to make the plunge. Time to go distro shopping, I'll make sure to settle on a rolling distro.

Do liberals feel some kind of indescribable euphoria from taking what they believe to be the moral high ground? They're always on their high horse, must be a side-effect of the brain rot.

The brooklyn lib seems to be encroaching on your territory in the world news community, turning it into /r/worldnews! Keep up the good fight, yogthos. I'm new to Lemmy in general and I'm sad to see I missed the days before the liberal invasion.

Ah, definitely could be it. I usually turn welfare up to level 1 or 2. On my next run, I'll turn it up a lot higher and see if that helps with reducing the number of radicals.

For what it's worth, lemmy.ml is growing very quickly, and while lemmygrad is also growing quickly, people seem to want to stick to communities in their local instance. As lemmy.ml continues to grow, you should see less content from lemmygrad users as we become more diluted here.

Unfortunately my Arabic has decayed significantly due to my years outside of the classroom, but recently I've been doing some of my own studying online in preparation for returning to Arabic class.

A few months back, I went to a small Mediterranean restaurant nearby and chatted with the owner in Arabic. He recommended I come see him at his mosque where he teaches children Arabic, he said he'd love to have me there for classes. I've been putting it off, but maybe I should give his number a ring soon.

Home Affairs and Police are always the first laws I try to push through and I always keep both institutions at their highest level. They mitigate some of the debuffs but they don't seem to actually reduce the number of radicals overall.

Beehaw is blocking lemmygrad, they're federated with lemmy.ml which is federated with lemmygrad, though.

I'm a member of the lemmygrad instance and I don't think I've see any content from beehaw, so you should be good over there.

Edit: Okay, I can confirm you cannot see any content from users in a blocked instance. I just looked at this thread from slrpnk.net and you cannot see my comment. And I also just read that you didn't want to join beehaw. What's wrong with beehaw?

I've played like that in the past, and unfortunately Victoria 3's radicalization system needs a complete rework to fully commit to maximizing SoL. If you have the highest standard of living in the world, when it decreases slightly you gain +6% radicals by base. When you bring it back up, you only gain +4% loyalists by base.

My SoL is fluctuating up and down slightly throughout the entire game. Even if it positively trends over the course of the entire game, radicalization will continue to increase, leading to annoying turmoil debuffs that never go away.

I’m new, what’s up with beehaw? They blocked our instance?

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?

Very well said comrade, in both of your comments here. However, I can’t help but feel this line of thinking could lead passionate Marxists to feel defeated and lose their spark.

I disagree that people cannot be changed through rhetoric, we aren’t inherently Marxist, we had friends, families, online comrades help us along our journey to where we are now.

The same can be said for fascists, they too were frustrated by capitalism but they were swayed by fascist rhetoric before ours reached them. I do agree that we as individuals should not feel burdened to come up with the solution to every problem and tear ourselves apart trying to put it into place, but I believe the power of Marxist rhetoric is too powerful to dismiss. At the very least we can grow our numbers while we bide our time.

Very curious to hear more of your thoughts, thank you for participating in the community.

At the individual level, as in how you interact with your friends and family, yes, absolutely wait. Something will happen to them personally where they feel betrayed by capitalism, or we could have another global capitalism failure like the handling of COVID-19.

As a collective, absolutely not, we don’t have to wait to join parties and coordinate political actions in our communities. I hope that makes sense.

Again, this is all the opinion of one comrade.

Ohhh yeah, been there, comrade. It can feel draining to see everyone ignore issues that you’re so passionate about.

I had initially typed up a hype speech for you, with some literature recommendations for radicalization, but let’s take a step back for a moment because our movement is only strong when you’re passionate and confident in your beliefs. No homework this time, I’ll try to reassure you with my own experiences radicalizing people.

I’m not a psychologist, take this with a grain of salt, but it’s my experience that someone is not open to radicalization if they’re satisfied. It usually takes some kind of event, like George Floyd’s murder, to make people militant and open to our radicalization as a solution to their frustration. It can even be on an individual level, like their landlord illegally raising their rent, or frustration with nepotism in their workplace. They will ask why, you answer with your Marxist knowledge you have acquired through literature and discussions with other communists.

Capitalism fails everyone in the proletariat, eventually it will fail your friends or family and you’ll be ready to help them understand why.

Fantastic, thanks for the link. I’ll give it a test today.

I have noticed the ridiculous amount of libs while poking around other instances. Lemmygrad is a shining beacon of hope. When I first discovered Lemmy and the Fediverse, my first thought was I had to find a Marxist instance to call home. Hopefully most comrades go through the same thought process when making the switch.

Ah okay, sweet, thanks for the advice! I'll check out a Mastadon app for iOS while Remmel is down.

Nice to meet you as well, redtea! I'm a year out from finishing my physics undergrad, and I'm hoping to get in the aerospace engineering graduate program at my university after I walk. I couldn't be more excited to return to classes this August. I miss being in the classroom.

I’m brand new to Lemmy, having trouble getting around on iOS. I checked out the GitHub for Remmel, in one of the open issues a dev mentioned they’re trying to get the app up and running again for the new Lemmy version a few months from now.

In the meantime, how have you been getting around the Fediverse on iOS, if you don’t mind me asking?

Right, I should clarify the radicalization success I’ve had was with previously apathetic people that identified as “liberal”, likely without truly understanding its meaning. A true lib, entrenched in their ideas, is a very tough nut to crack. Not worth our time.

Opposite of most people in this thread, I don’t think I’ve interacted with many Muslims online, at least not discussing communism with them.

I’m very involved with the Muslim community at my university, I’ve met so many great Muslim leftists. One of my good friends runs the Student Justice for Palestine organization at the university, I love him to death, although we vehemently disagree on a few things. For him specifically, I’ve never seen him regurgitate anti-CCP Uighur propaganda, but many prominent Muslims in his organization have very loudly done so. He also organizes many marches, which I respect his passion for, even if I personally disagree with peaceful protesting to achieve the goal he wants. He believes the movement is big enough to demand real change, so I don’t really see the point in peaceful marches if you think your movement has enough traction. I’m of the opinion that peaceful protesting is great for spreading the word wide, but it’s not going to shake up the bourgeoisie like rioting will.

For me, after my initial radicalization I found it difficult to bite my tongue around capitalists. I’ve since come to understand, at least for some people, they’ve accepted their exploitation. I don’t argue with my family that doesn’t share my views anymore.

My friends however, I drop if they aren’t receptive to communist ideas. I feel like I’ve been pretty lucky that 90% of them are genuine and caring people, so they naturally come to understand and agree with these ideas because they have empathy.

For some reason I was under the impression I could make a post to my own profile, whoops! I’ll do my intro here!

Hi, I’m suggs. I’m a college student at a large public university, and I’ve been involved in a few leftist groups here at my university, but I’m still trying to find one that is actually Marxist. I’d like to share my story of how I was radicalized.

I should also preface this by stating my father is a small business owner, so I have been extremely privileged in my petty bourgeoise upbringing. Despite my mother being a minority in my country, I am cis and white passing, and I recognize the privilege that comes with that.

In high school I fell deep into the alt-right pipeline online, and I crawled through the dankest, most disturbing chan boards as I consumed redpill after redpill. In college, I took Arabic language courses because I thought it would be fun to learn a difficult language. I ended up falling in love with the language and eventually traveled to Jordan in a study abroad program to further my study of the language. On this trip, my reactionary views clashed with my classmates, and I was ostracized throughout the entire trip. I’d experienced moments like this in the past, but this trip is what truly started my reflection on my worldview.

Over the next few years as I struggled in an identity crisis, I fell into a deep depression. After a few years of blowing in the wind and dropping out of college, I reconnected with my cousin. My cousin introduced me to Marxist ideas, and as someone involved in local politics in our city, he introduced me to our local communist party. From there, I consumed literature he recommended, and I branched out and continued studying on my own. I’ve since radicalized many of my family members and most of my friends, and I continue to share what I’ve learned and encourage others to consume literature.

I can’t wait to learn more with the community here. See you all around.

Thanks! Been browsing all night. I plan to make an introduction post for myself soon, I can’t wait to meet everyone whose content I’ve been absolutely loving.

Quick question, as someone entirely new to federation: Is there a similar ML community to this one for video sharing? Almost like YouTube?

Additionally, to any other new people like myself that may have had trouble logging in: Try typing your username and password out manually, rather than using an auto-filler for your login credentials. Auto-filling did not seem to work for me.