yup, blocked that instance.

it's controlled by one or a very small group of people, and none of the rules are followed.

Not exclusively, but I do think twice before posting to a community hosted there, and actively seek out alternatives if possible. The only two I haven't found alternatives for are c/crows and c/freecad.

I refrain from participating in and even from looking at any community that generates anxiety and/or anger, or that encourage or don't oppose what I consider destructive or hostile behaviors. I consider time too precious to waste mine with the kind of persons who enjoy those things.

It is not related to any specific place, though. It's mostly a question of the persons participating and of the moderators.

Personally, I don't. I get from your story that you seem to have been abusively banned, and from the comments that it doesn't seem like an isolate case. But while that might deter me from making an account there, or at most from having a community hosted there, it's not like anything bad comes to me from merely interacting with .ml content. The only servers worth blocking in my opinion are those full of spammers, or of content I'd personally hate to see in any situation.

I think it's generally best to host communities on politically neutral instances

No. I think .ml is becoming some kind of bogey man. At the end of the day I think any instance is gonna have its own slant and bias; which isn’t a problem for me, personally.

Lemmy.ml is the only instance block I have, after seeing too many illiberal shit takes, bad faith arguments and socialist astroturf posts.

My instance quickly defederated from HexBear and LemmyGrad which is just fine by me, it's helpful most of the bad eggs are concentrated in just a few places.

I'm more of an anarchist and I've not had issues with hexbear or .ml, though I don't block lemmygrad I'm not subbed to most of their communities mostly because sectarianism bothers me.

I feel like I always have to check if I'm posting on something that's on .world because even relatively mild off-color humor can get removed as "incivility" if it rubs a mod the wrong way.

While I have not blocked the instance (yet), I purposely try not to post anything on any community hosted there and rather look for alternatives. Sometimes it's easier to comment and or post on an ml instance due to it being larger in user size such as the [email protected] vs [email protected] - but in these cases I will crosspost too.

Whichever instance you choose, someone will have complaints about it. Personally I don't have issues with .ml, but there are quite a few "tech"-oriented instances over which my trigger finger is itching on the site ban trigger.

It's all a question of which subset of human stupidity you're willing to deal with. Because all humans are stupid, we're just different in how and where we express it.

If you move sim racing, would you mind replying to me to let me know? I follow the current one just cause I think sim racing is neat. If it gets moved I'd love to follow the new one

(Totally fine if that's too much work :)

I wish that political ideology wasn't such a thing to worry about on Lemmy. It's sadly easy to find extremist content, even on the homepage, when you're not logged in.

Yes, except a few selected communities I completely avoid interacting with lemmy.ml

I don’t refrain from participating in Lemmy.ml community unless the mods of that community act like the admins do. The majority of users aren’t my issue with Lemmy.ml at least on the non political communities, it’s the admin’s suppression of opposition

Also blocked it.

Depends. I've reccomened this before too, but I keep both world and ml "World News" communities because even though they're defederated, having both seems to encompass a better range of sources and topics.