Can we get some fun stats and stuff from Lemmygrad over the years? I think it would be cool to see things like change in monthly active users, when the spikes were and what drove them, which communities became more/less popular, etc.

I think only instance admins have access to this info.

The only public thing I could find was monthly active users using a random website, but it only showed a few months (and I’m not sure it’s accurate).

Lemmygrad Continues to Show Resilience in the Face of Extraordinary Challenges

11.02.2026

Starting from the 9th of February 2026, many users have reported that images on Lemmygrad have not been functioning as expected. A large amount of older images in posts, comments, and profile pictures have become unavailable across Lemmygrad communities.

This issue was not caused by any failure of Lemmygrad’s infrastructure, rather due to an unexpected and untimely disruption to one of Lemmygrad’s primary logistical partners.

Since its founding, Lemmygrad has had to overcome many unique challenges not faced by projects less hostile to capital. A lot of diligence went into finding reliable hosting partners, a task made considerably more difficult given the project’s orientation. On Lemmy, it has been the target of strategic defederation campaigns, anti-communist propaganda in liberal and anarchist communities, and has been placed on a hard-coded block-list for Piefed, an explicitly neoliberal and NATO-friendly alternative to Lemmy.
At the time of writing, it is not known whether the disruption and reported decommissioning of Lemmygrad’s multimedia host is another deliberate act of anti-communist hostility.

Regardless of the cause of disruption, Lemmygrad has once again addressed the challenge with the utmost urgency and resolve. Respected comrade @muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml has managed to establish relations with another logistical partner, minimise the potential damage from the incident, and is working tirelessly to make the transition as smooth as possible.
Whereas many other communities may have faltered and expressed frustration, the Lemmygrad community rallied around their comrades, showing support and appreciation for their efforts in addressing the issue.

Lemmygrad has not only overcome challenges like these every time, but has also never turned down the call to assist its friends and partners when needed. During the notorious Hexbear domain incident, an existential issue for the socialist instance, The Embassy of Hexbear on Lemmygrad was established to provide refuge and an open line of communication and coordination for Hexbear users.
It has also provided a community for feedback, recruitment and support for sister project ProleWiki.

Lemmygrad has shown itself time and time again to be a reliable partner, but increasingly finds itself having to rely on self-sufficiency. It is not yet known what the long-term solutions for such challenges will look like; what is known is that Lemmygrad, with the support of its community, will always overcome them.

i asked for a payraise lmao and instead of them saying no they just fired me like wtf?

I wish I was surprised, but I’m not. A friend of mine got fired from a job for not wanting to work overtime, and another had half their department laid off with 4 days notice. Absolute bullshit.

I hope you could make the best of it, and find something better when the time comes.

I think para-politics can only go so far in explaining things and often leads to conspiracism in ML circles […] but infighting among various factions in the bourgeois class is an explanation that makes sense, is verifiably true, and has happened throughout history.

I’m not implying that there’s some sort of conspiracy or that it’s unexplainable. There was an active decision to release these documents, I’m just trying to understand to whose benefit it is, and why was the decision made to release them.

The released documents implicate a lot of powerful people from across the spectrum in the U.S.

I have been very loosely keeping up with the news these days, and have been skimming through the new Epstein stuff. It’s got me wondering, has anyone here elaborated on why these files are being released to begin with?

If they have to release something, just to keep some sort of legitimacy, what is the benefit of releasing so many files?
I read that some of the files got taken down at some point, but why were they published in the first place?

If someone wrote a comment or post on this before, I’d appreciate a link.

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Very concise and insightful, thank you.

I think that’s very well-put, thank you. The basis of this analysis is not unfamiliar to me, but the contextualisation definitely helps.

I believe I was a bit thrown off by what I understood was an expectation of a proletarianised writer to boycott Amazon, for example, but not a driver, accountant, customer support rep, etc.

While I see some of the issues here, maybe I’m misunderstanding something, but to me this seems too broad.

Apart from the biggest artists, publisher relations are extremely exploitative. Many artists whether they’re musicians, authors, illustrators, etc. find themselves in situations or industries where they don’t have that much control over their own work through being forced to take extremely unfavourable publishing deals.

In that case, for someone who is attempting to make a living from selling their books and the publisher sells them on Amazon, why and how is this qualitatively different to being an Amazon delivery driver?
To clarify, this isn’t a rhetorical question. I’d like to understand this point.