Looking at instances such as Hexbear and lemmygrad.ml... are they wrong though? And many other instances have given Hexbear a platform to promote and host i.e. spread their content across the wide Fediverse.

We are a tankie bar, plain and simple. Yes you can block it, but most instances have not historically gone very far in that regard, from the perspective of a new Reddit refugee, e.g. a centrist, religious, American who may not like what is going on but also is put off by calls for things such as outright murder.

If we want to expand, we need to get better at labeling the spaces so as to make people with a wider (aka more diverse) set of backgrounds comfortable here. We won't though, instead preferring to simply claim that everything that "in-group" says is correct (and often not allowed to be questioned, though mod & admin tolerances varies wildly) and everything that "out-group" says is 100% wrong and everyone is "stupid" for believing such.

In this case wouldn't they be giving it?

I always do this.

Except of course when I don't.

Wow, they really can smash anything!:-)

Honestly, PieFed solves so much of that - like combining all comments across all cross-posts, and Topic Feeds, which are user customizable and shareable, and showing the sidebar text with all the rules and such below each and every post in a community, not only on the community page itself, plus adding flairs (user and post), polling, a true blocking ability for all users from an instance, blah blah etc. but the chief thing is that it keeps growing so quickly. Python is just that much easier to code in than Rust, I suppose, or else the devs are just super good (or both?:-).

I lost hope for Lemmy long ago and almost decided to leave it, even if there was nowhere else to go. I am so glad to have found PieFed.

Even then if I want to learn about certain things that are barely talked about here, I have to go back to Reddit. I lurk now but that is where the people have decided to share their content, so if I need specifically it then that is where I need to go to read it.

What a great way to look at it - I am glad that you shared this!:-)

Omg I needed this today, thank you for sharing! 😁

It has the benefit of being true 😜

Except you also radiate it back outwards, so are you a prism?

Then wait till you hear about v1.2...

There's a massive backlog of awesome stuff that really needs to be released so I'll be doing that within the next week or two.

- Rimu, the primary dev of PieFed, roughly a week ago...