Our instance is only defederated from one other instance and itโ€™s lemmygrad. My question is why? It doesnโ€™t seem like a hate group or anything as far as I can tell. Can someone fill me in?

I hope I posted this to the right place; still getting used to how lemmy works. If I should post elsewhere, let me know.

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I saw one post from Lemmygrad and it was like listening to MAGA heads, except instead of conservatism, it was extreme communism.

Extremists on either side are not good.

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Okay, but if youโ€™re going to defederate from one instance for ideological reasons, why not others? Someone else linked another instance that is pretty extreme in its right wing ideology, so to not defederate from that one seems sketchy.

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I agree with that; but Iโ€™m not in control of any instance to make that decision.

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Sorry, Iโ€™m not saying you are. Iโ€™m just thinking that itโ€™s good to talk about as people who choose to use this instance. Maybe we can ask the person who does run it to change it if we all agree? Idk

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yupp

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@Kolanaki why is extremism โ€œnot goodโ€?

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Itโ€™s a pain in the arse when people make sweeping statements like that.

I see myself as an extremist, self described as on the radical far left. However Iโ€™m no way a tankie obsessed with Stalin and Mao and certainly not about to pretend genocides werenโ€™t committed.

Thereโ€™s certainly takeaways from Stalin and Maos and the ideology they moulded, but too quick people jump to their defences but equally any communism is instantly shot down as crazy.

Guess Iโ€™m rambling now. Basically in summary, you can be an extremist on the left that isnโ€™t authoritarian whilst still wanting everyone in society to have a fair share

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Tbh what youโ€™re describing isnโ€™t extremism, but quite based. It only seems extreme because everyone has drifted so far right that any kind of leftist talking points are framed as being externe.

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