Don’t bend the knee to other instances, let them all defederate if they can’t handle free speech. Its clear that a lot of other instances want to run their sites like Reddit 2.0 with heavy censorship. They complain so much about Reddit but yet want Lemmy to be just like it.
It’s normal as a teenager to not feel right in your body as you go through puberty. It’s normal to have a desire to fit in amongst your classmates. How many of us look back at old pictures from our teenage years and cringe at the clothes and hairstyles that were in at the time. Those weren’t permanent body alterations so we were able to change later on. Nowadays people take advantage of teenagers by convincing them that normal teenage insecurities are actually because they are trans and they need to make permanent alterations to their body in order to feel confident in their body.
These days if you express any opposition to a left wing/lgbtq+×÷=<>€£¥₩~`¤°♡ viewpoint you are labelled a nazi fascist.
I joined Lemmy.world during the Reddit blackout because it was the largest instance. I noticed the site leaned heavily to the left but this is to be expected since Reddit does too. I blocked all of the political communities since I just wanted to read about technology and other non political things like I do on Reddit, since the rest of that site is also a liberal cesspool.
I came to Lemmy.world one day to see a post about a Nazi instance and went to the post to figure out what the URL was. I would never join an actual Nazi site but in 2023 the left calls anyone that disagrees with them a Nazi. I had hoped Lemmy would be like the earlier days of Reddit where things weren’t so politically correct, but I shouldn’t have been surprised that Reddit refugees would want a Reddit like experience with heavy moderation and down votes for anyone who dares to disagree with the left wing hivemind.
Unfortunately whenever the left bans all the right wingers from their sites, it just makes their sites more extreme left. The people they ban just go and create their own websites that become even more extreme right than what their old communities were like. This seems to be the trend over the last several years and it causes political discussion sites to become extremist circlejerks. I’d love to find an instance that allows more reasonable debate and isn’t heavily moderated like Reddit. So far this instance has potential.