You’re swapping it with more “all police are schwein”, “capitalism hasn’t ever done anything for anyone” and “the West is the wicked” though.

I’d prefer some balance in the middle.

Exactly. Hexbears posting culture diverged off into its own Darwinian branch and getting back to wider federation has been a bit of a wake up call for both camps.

Unless their politics is embedded in the software (it isn’t) I’m perfectly able to separate the utility of said software from the views of the creators.

Why not both?

It’s so hard for you hexbears since you federated and met people who disagree with you.

Someone asked for an example. I gave one. Seems fairly on topic to me.

Hexbear - tankie bullshit.

I disagree that Lemmy isn’t known as an alternative; it’s mentioned everywhere where Reddit’s current trouble is.

I actually think the issue is just as much about community discovery and fragmentation; combined each community+rest of the fediverse is large. On an individual server there can often be few users and few posts. Being able to subscribe to a batch of fediverse communities in one go would really help. Then the entry point could be these discovery systems and the home of the account a secondary concern.