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Why is Lemmygrad hated in the wider space of Lemmy? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been trying to find a good Marxist instance, but Lemmygrad and Hexbear are widely hated. Why is that? Are there any good leftist instances?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I haven't seen or maybe haven't noticed much of lemmygrad. But hex bear has a culture of spamming the same handful of images, using them like punctuation in their posts. And they show up huge in my reader at least (I just found out they look small to them.) So it's like you're trying to have a discussion and someone comes parading through with like five crappy drawings that take up all the space. Also I don't mind having Marxists around but they tend to want to steer every discussion toward it, regardless of its relevance. Can't wait to be able to block the instance.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Marxism is relevant to everything through dialectics, which was synthesized by Hegel first. Also the emoji size is a quirk of Lemmy, all custom emojis take up their original size on other instances regardless of which instance it comes from.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well at least now I got a taste of lemmygrad, lol

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Yep. Nailed it. They’re a collective of edgelords where only within their own collective, they’re found amusing and clever.

Outside of it- they’re cringy and childish.