Yeah, I do definitely like that. I mean, yes, piles of different instances means different rules everywhere and often having to have more accounts than I want to keep track of… but I did definitely pick Hexbear for my first experience with this type of website because it’s an explicitly leftist instance and the less authoritarian leftists like to scream that it’s full of tankies, and, well, that’s exactly what I’d wanted. This kind of decentralisation is… rather appealing to anarchist types both left and right, and I don’t really like them - some ancoms are perfectly fine to organise with, most you meet online are sectarian bastards not worth arguing with.

I do enjoy that no matter where I am on this site and whether the comm in question is explicitly political, I can trust no one’s gonna be angry with me for saying something too far left. So while I do like the idea of a different site for every large enough niche, I also like the idea of Hexbear or Lemmygrad or something like this as a place for all sorts of communities, political and otherwise, just, y’know, explicitly leftist. The communities where on any other site you’d have to be cautious when politics comes up, here you can just straight up call imperialism what it is and blame capitalism for the problems that capitalism causes. Which we need, when so much of the Internet, especially the Anglosphere internet, is explicitly the opposite.