No one was trying to claim that Hexbear and Lemmygrad are Lemmy.ml. This is one of the most embarrassing and pathetic attempts at avoidance by a member of Piefed staff I've ever seen.

The person alleged that all 3 instances were blocked, and the first two absolutely are. But instead of briefly clarifying about the one that isn't while still addressing the two that are defederated by default, you instead chose to double down on the one that wasn't to try and devalidate the argument when you know it is actually in large part true, 2/3 of the instances listed are actually blocked and no one said hexbear and lemmygrad were lemmy.ml.