No, it looks like Fedi.tips is driving people away from the software Lemmy, because they have ethical issues about not censoring Lemmygrad's userbase and the devs' ideology.

As it says on the homepage sidebar, lemmy.ml isn't a flagship instance, and I'd expect better from an account calling itself Fedi.tips. They've just thrown Beehaw and sopuli.xyz and all the others in the same bucket.

Oh no the existence of communists having an instance is keeping people away from the project, why am I not suprised

I can see your post from here so you're not being too heavily blocked. Some people maybe just have a kneejerk reaction to communist imagery/mentality (maybe bad experiences in various countries' history, etc)

The way I see it, this isn't really a step backwards. On the centralized platforms, our communities get banned and their ashes get scattered to the winds. On the fediverse, we get blacklisted by large instances operated by liberals, but our communities remain intact and can still network with one another directly. We are also protected from ideologically hostile admins quietly picking off our comrades one by one.

Lol well beehaw is completely down right now, just completely flat on the ground dead, nothing is loading.

Too true

it's more so just annoying having to check people's handles to make sure I'm not wasting time writing a reply out that they won't even see

This, when I first entered Lemmy just as an FOSS alternative to reddit, I also thought that those Lemmygrad people are taking things too far. Now I consider myself ML and really enjoy the community here.