Lemmy.world is required to uphold German law, which is becoming increasingly draconic in forbidding advocacy for justice for the Palestinian people. Its moderators are happy to play cops.

One of the way social media federation can fail is that if everybody goes onto the same instance, that instance has a de facto monopoly again. Reddit didn't have to kill other websites, those websites atrophied naturally because reddit is where everything is happening. This would make our community vulnerable to issues with the instance, in this case the legal jurisdiction.

So as a user, I vote with my feet. I've likewise blocked lemmy.ml communities and dbzer0 communities for denying or excusing genocide by the USSR and China and for their support and heavy use of generative AI respectively.

I don't pre-emptively block users from these instances because users can make new accounts on other instances easily, so I trust you to do that when you feel uncomfortable with your current instance. But communities have inertia, and are likely to stay long after their moderators and users have grown to dislike the instance, so I make it easier by being social elsewhere.