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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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] nondescript_citizen@lemmy.fmhy.ml 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, but if you'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.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] nondescript_citizen@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I'm not saying you are. I'm just thinking that it'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

[–] alternative_factor@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

yupp

[–] jtmetcalfe@mastodon.nz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Kolanaki why is extremism “not good”?

[–] CaptainComrade@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It'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 I'm no way a tankie obsessed with Stalin and Mao and certainly not about to pretend genocides weren't committed.

There'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 I'm rambling now. Basically in summary, you can be an extremist on the left that isn't authoritarian whilst still wanting everyone in society to have a fair share

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbh what you're describing isn'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.

[–] CaptainComrade@lemmy.fmhy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Oh I agree. That was kind of what I was getting at I suppose.

The overton window has catapulted so much to the fat right that 'everyone should have access to healthcare' is an 'absurd' and 'marxist' opinion.