General Discussion

Yep, did the same. Looked for an instance that federated with everyone and has no plans to defederate with anyone.

It was. But if they were seriously using lemmy.ml as a propaganda tool, they could simply have upgraded instead of pushing others to use different instances.

Which just confirms what I was saying. They're not using it as a propaganda too. Will they tollerate posts/comments against communism/socialism? Most likely not. Hey, it's their right. Though, yes, I do believe that if they do that, it has to be stated in the rules of the instance, not just randomly applied (posts/comments just deleted, users banned, etc.).

For beehaw, I really can't comment since I don't think I know enough about it (or what's going on in that instance). Tbh though I was a bit surprised they chose to defederate world and shitjustworks. I do get the lack of well-developed mod tools to handle stuff, but maybe there are other less drastic ways.

beehaw is your typical US based instance. A lot of people there claim that they're liberal, but they're just snowflakes if you ask me. They try and control the influx of posts/feeds, which is not what the fediverse is about if you ask me. But they chose their way, that's fine, it's their choice, but that's just wrong if you ask me. On the other hand, everyone defederated from lemmygard, but lemmyrad didn't defederate from anyone... talk about irony. Everyone blaming lemmygrad for being this or that, defederating from them, but lemmygrad doing the complete oposite 🤨 😂.

And there are tools that can cope with this problem. Don't like a community/user? Block him/her. Heck, that's what I did with all of the cats communities here. I do like cats, but not in every second post, and some people just make post after post of cats, so my feed was cluttered with posts of cats 😒. Don't get me wrong, I love all animals, cats included, but it's not why I joined Lemmy - to look at cute cats. But, it's their right to post cats, and since I can't control the feed, I did the next best thing, just block those communities 🤷.

And I didn't bitch to anyone about "too many cats on Lemmy", which is just childish IMO. Don't like it? Block it. It's as simple as that.

I'm not that familiar with the fediverse yet, but it would be nice if users can choose which instances to block. Or at least a majority vote before defederating (although that might encourage trolls or other people to join just to sway the vote). For now I'm mostly observing.

That would be a better option if you ask me. User based blocking of instances, as well as users and communties. By default, you can view everytjing. Don't like a user/community/instance? Block it.

It's not built by Nazis for Nazis.
Some opinions follow, because nothing is black/white.

I'm pretty sure the Devs are Communists and are very anti-nazi, anti-racist, anti-facist. They have controversial opinions, so I think some people think/say they are Nazis.
You can read more about their opinions here: https://github.com/dessalines/essays and draw your own conclusions.

Additionally, I'm fairly confident that they have separated those beliefs between lemmy.ml and lemmygrad, and I'm fairly confident they do a good job of moderating Lemmy so it doesn't become lemmygrad2.
Some people who post thinking Lemmy is a bastion of free speech may get a shock when they get moderated. And they might equate such moderation to more extreme political beliefs or false equivalents.

As for the Lemmy software, it is Free Open Source Software. It's built for everyone. Literally the most socialist/communist thing there can be - advocating for public ownership.
I think there is enough vested interests in Lemmy, with enough skills behind it, that - if the main software somehow became an issue (unlikely) - that a dominant fork would emerge and everyone could migrate (there would be a period of turmoil during the transition).

If you want my opinion:
You have nothing to worry about.
If you want a right/left/commy/socialist/safe-space/wholesome/techy/nazi community, there will be an instance that tailors towards it.
If you aren't sure, you can pick an instance for now and get a feel of the fediverse, then create a new account on another instance when you find one that suits your sensibilities (I'm sure account migration is in the works).

Well I think I worded that poorly, a communist is a pretty large term referring to a lot of different ideas, so you can't really say what a communist believes exactly. A tankie is a subsection of communists who want an authoritarian state that holds all power and are supportive or regimes like the USSR and Mao Zedong China (which imho were horrible regimes that has destroyed a lot of lives). Now I don't care about tankies and I don't care about the ideology so I know very little of it (so I might be far of reality here), but I don't think nazis and tankies are so far off in "horribleness"