Speaking in general, the main difference I have observed is that the “liberal” instances aka Piefed, LW and the large colonial-power-aligned instances, seem to have decided being federated with any leftist instances who challenge state-backed narratives is legally/politically problematic for them. No wonder, since leftism is becoming increasingly criminalized in the west. There has been a sustained campaign to paint anyone left of the Democrats as an “extremist” and to try to isolate us as much as possible. Previously, I’d say most of the political agitation on Lemmy came from leftists. Now, it seems to be mostly coming from anti-antifa crowd, aka the far right.

For this ban in particular though, I think this was a clear case of PTB. Wren is about as reasonable a user as I have come across on Lemmy.

Don’t be sorry, I posted this more because it’s funny than anything else.

Lemmy is a weird place. It’s a whole lot less toxic than, say, my town facebook group, but still weird.

I do hope more people join with the understanding they can curate their feeds, and hope they see all the purity testers and trolls as oddities in an exhibit rather than the whole lemmy experience.

But yeah, super tempted to make a lemmy bingo card now.

I need more suggestions for what would go on it.