as a kbinaut, may I ask why everyone feels it's important to block lemmygrad? here on kbin we're still federated with them and things seem fine?

Because basically, everyone got scared from them being communists/socialists and just decided to defederate from them.

It's nothing more than fear based on years of propaganda pushed by western coumtries, nothing more. They don't defederate from anyone, yet everyone feels the need to defederate from them. Yes, they do have leftist views, they do think the world of many current and ex communist leaders, but if you don't like that, you can just block their communities 🤷.

Other than that, their communites are mostly like everyone else's, politics, memes, piracy, comics, etc. They even have a few LGBTQ+ dedicated communities and about 20% of them are LGBTQ+ acording to a recent demographic survey they had (you can find it in their main community), so... basically, they're human, just like the rest of us.

Many of them are well informed, not to mention highly educated, so I can see why there is fear amongst other instances - a debate starts, most people will flop regarding info, facts, whatever, they'll have the upper hand in the debate, so why actually try and listen to what they've got to say, they're just tankies anyway - defederate 🤷.

If you don't like their communities, just block them, no need to defederate from them... at least I can't see a reason.

I see. I like the kbin philosophy of just federating with everyone. lemmygrad stuff doesn't pop up that often here and from a quick look it didn't really look like an issue. But yeah I guess you're right that it's just fear? or people just wanting to curate/block certain things...

It's like my need to see less cat posts. I searched for every cat community there is on Lemmy and just blocked all of them. Problem solved 👍. Some people are just snowflakes and don't even wanna do that out of fear they might see some tankie posts or something, so the admins just did their dirty work for them 😒.

I might open up a kbin account as well, this whole defederation thing sucks. I already have like 5 accounts cuz this instance is defederated from that instance and so on 😒.

yeah so far on kbin I think we're federated with everyone and I think that's kinda the default going forward. So unless other instances block us, we're probably fine.