I'm not sure why I feel this way. I don't want to get too much into anything, but when people say they create their own echo chambers Yada Yada thing, even though I would agree with that, it's interesting to see how people who believe different things, are just amongst eachother.
I wish there was a way to get all defederated or isolated instances to not necessarily federated but connect in a way where a user can see their feeds but you still can't reply if that instance has you on their blocked list idk
With Lemmy, entire instances can be more like a single subreddit or a small set of them. Comms often lack clear distinctions in topic or focus and this is particularly true for small instances. They look more like the old-school forums that Reddit replaced but with better tooling and interfaces and ways to discover them.
Some of the large instances, by contrast, have complete Le Reddit brain and constantly want to speak to the manager about you daring to contradict them. That's not the curated liberal echo chamber they signed up for! Nor what the admins nor their mods signed up for! They just wanted another Reddit with some vague nonsense about open APIs and they are, predictably, constantly shedding users back to Reddit.
Lemmy.world is a never-ceasing ratchet effect to the right as they flee and shut themselves away from leftist instances. Genuine fascists habit there among the liberals.
The moderate wing of fascism as one very smart guy once said