Most users prefer to defederate from socialist instances because “tankies”.
To the degree that people bother to defederate from anything (most users don’t) I would assume its because apologists for Putin and China are about as odious to talk to as MAGAs
Basically any anti-imperialist and anti-US empire critique is stamped as Putin/China apologism and downvoted or outright banned. You don’t even have to be a socialist to be “odious”. And of course the big instances have already defederated from the major socialist instances.
To the degree that people bother to defederate from anything (most users don’t) I would assume its because apologists for Putin and China are about as odious to talk to as MAGAs
Basically any anti-imperialist and anti-US empire critique is stamped as Putin/China apologism and downvoted or outright banned. You don’t even have to be a socialist to be “odious”. And of course the big instances have already defederated from the major socialist instances.