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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.