UPDATE 2 WEEKS LATER:
I’m moving my account to another instance. What instance? I don’t know yet, it might take some time to research the most fitting server for me. If lemm.ee can’t defederate from incel, nazi and totally radicalized instances then I’m gone.
—B-b-but you can block them yourself!!1!1
Yes. However I have to look at this shit everytime I enter Lemmy and new subs grow like mushrooms after the rain. I’m tired of seeing recycled low quality jpeg propaganda memes, lemmy should not even be political at all, but people will fuck up everything. I advise everyone who made an account here by mistake to follow my path. Admin won’t step down to satisfy one person. From what I’ve seen lemme.ee is closely related to hexbear (based on activity), even if it’s not said anywhere. If you’re a person that emigrated from reddit, then emigrating from this shithole will be less hustle than you think. I’m just sad it took me so much time to realize what I had dived into. I’ll be under a new username to cut all my ties with lemme.ee. Goodbye.
OG Post:
It’s over. You broke the federation.
It’s currently one of the worst servers out there. Insane login times, viewing profile and inbox takes forever, other users don’t see your comments, still can’t share images in comments while other servers can, and has many toxic instances that have not been defederated yet (why?).
One of the things I noticed when I was new is how people recommended joining low populated servers to help with fediverse diversity. Lemmy.world was bursting and it made sense at that time, but now I changed my mind. It’s unreliable as fuck. You see all this shit happening to lemm.ee but not other servers. I would never recommend condemning your username by joining this shithole. It’s my first post and probably the last one. Idk, go rollback to version 0.1 maybe it was the only one working fine. Lemm.ee has fallen, but I guess that’s what happens when your server is a raspberry pi of some underage kid. Raise the flag, shit server claims another soul.
Just saw your edit above. So is it mainly that they won’t defederate? If you want that, then you need to move to lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works or beehaw.org. These instances would more fit that ideology.
/u/sunaurus quite clearly wanted to defederate from lemmygrad.ml and hexbear. He’s from Estonia, a former Soviet country that absolutely does not like Russia. Estonia gained independence from the Soviet Union, but instead of a violent revolution, they won their freedom by singing.
The only reason you think this instance is associated with those instances is because some users from those instances started to moonlight over here after their instance was defederated from lemmy.world and other major community instances. lemm.ee is as open as reasonably possible - spammers are blocked, but others are allowed for the sake of allowing open discussion. Users from lemmygrad and hexbear also moonlight on lemmy.ml now, since the defederations, but lemmy.ml communities are often moderated in the same style as those tankie communities.
I was banned from hexbear for frivilous reasons, well before they started making alt accounts here. I kind of wanted lemm.ee to defederate, if only so I didn’t keep seeing hexbear posts in my feed that I couldn’t comment on. Now, I can block hexbear and not see their communities, but I can still call them out in less oppressively moderated subs whenever they step out. Usually they don’t, because they’re pussies when they don’t have mods to hide behind.
lemmygrad.ml has some of the same shit, but it’s at least a little bit more rational. I can argue with them and toe their lines, even if I get nothing but downvotes.
So yeah, if you don’t like how lemm.ee is federated, then maybe it just isn’t the instance for you. You would be better off with another. However, that isn’t a flaw in lemm.ee - certainly not a technical flaw, which your original post was focused on - that’s just, like, your opinion, man.