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Right, but what I'm saying is that as an instance admin, I can and do block other instances for the reasons you outline. If someone posts in a hate sub, they're getting banned from my instance. If an instance is explicitly right wing, it's getting defederated from my instance. If someone does "what about"ism or otherwise excuses transphobia, racism, sexism or the like, they're getting banned from my instance.
I'm explicitly biased towards communities and people that align with my beliefs, and will happily ban anyone that is actively opposed to them. I have zero interest in "free speech" as a guiding policy that I should be aiming for.
Which is to say, I am many of the things you say reddit is, but lemmy isn't, and yet here I am on lemmy.
The difference is federation vs centralisation. On reddit, if you don't like it, you're out of luck. On lemmy, if you don't like an instance, you can find another or even create your own. But both of those versions can and do have humans with bias pushing ban buttons
The thing is, the wider Fediverse works the way you describe, with imported defederation lists etc.
Most people setting up new Mastodon instances start with a standard block list with all of the usual suspects on it.
This is the future of Lemmy too as it gets bigger and as integration with non Lemmy instance becomes more common.
I agree. And I think that's the difference. Fundamentally, Lemmy isn't that much different to Reddit, in so far as all of the issues you highlight there exist here too.
The only difference is context.