Our instance is only defederated from one other instance and it's lemmygrad. My question is why? It doesn'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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[–] zephr_c@lemm.ee 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Before everyone came over from reddit Lemmygrad was even more extreme than it is now, and was one of the largest Lemmy instances. You basically had to either defederate from Lemmygrad or have every conversation get derailed by people going on about how Stalin was actually a pretty chill dude. Defederating from Lemmygrad probably isn't so important anymore, but it's just kind of stuck around out of inertia at this point, I think.

[–] brunox@feddit.cl 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Before everyone came over from reddit Lemmygrad was even more extreme than it is now, and was one of the largest Lemmy instances.

This is correct. After all, setting up an instance like Lemmygrad -as an alternative places where discussing politics (especially leftist politics) outside of reddit's moderation reach- was one of the reasons Lemmy was developed in the first place. Lemmy's developers are not shy about it, they include it in the official docs.

[–] ryannathans@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lmao it's literally in the name. Like Leningrad

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I had not picked up on this. Thanks for pointing that out.

[–] sarsaparilyptus@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Doesn't hurt that Dessalines got banned from reddit for posting Uyghur genocide apologetics. He wanted a safe space where that's cool.