"I can’t take any more of the vote blue no matter who milquetoast centrism that is the exact fucking opposite of what a non-corporate platform should be advocating."

While I agree, is it not most of the lemmyverse? It's why I stay on Twitter and, "banned" federated sites 99.9% these whelps have defederared from, and only show up to this cesspool to see what nonsense removed are spouting here on occasion.

Midwest.social is running Lemmy v0.19 though - so why not just block it for yourself rather than have the entire instance defederate? Go to your settings, click at the top where it says Blocks, scroll all the way down and now there's a new box (that was not there a month ago) where you can block an entire instance.

I do not know the limitations of that approach, but since I did not see mention of this in your post I thought I would make certain that you knew about this fairly recent change that occured during the holiday season, as a possibility worth looking into at least.

Ofc meme conmmmunities would like to have their fun, and political ones to have more serious discussions. The trick perhaps is to read the room, which on a platform with such a wide variety of options as Lemmy (or Reddit) is next to impossible. Hence why this is so far an unsolved problem, though it is perhaps not unsolvable with sufficient effort put into further developing the technology of Lemmy (though other matters seem to have been more pressing for the developers to focus on). I do hope it is solved one day.

I will add that Lemmy is nowhere near as bad, to the same degree I mean, as Reddit is now. Go take a look - it has gotten much worse over there. I would rather shut off social media altogether than ever go back there in the general subs. Edit: which isn't necessarily such a bad idea.