Lemmy.ml is a stain on the fediverse. As much as Dessalines and Nutomic preach that “if you don’t like our moderation policy you can start your own instance,” lemmy.ml’s dominant position means it’s hard to realistically defederate and ignore, so by default their (unclear and tankie belief-based) moderation policy is effectively getting enforced no matter what.

I tried using the “block instance” feature kbin supposedly has, but it didn’t work. On the upside, lemmy.world, kbin.social, and beehaw.org seem to be doing quite well.