[icy]

> there's an exceedingly healthy culture of blocking sites which themselves advocate oppressive practices

Oppressive, but defined by whom? I've seen arbitrary blocks of instances simply because they run Pleroma or Soapbox. In fact, my own instance was briefly on fediblock.org's list because my bio says "I care about freedom—both in software, and in speech"; the reason stated was "free-speech". That's absurd!

As is often said on the fediverse, some switched over from Twitter due to too much censorship, others due to to little.

[jamesgeck0]

“Free speech” servers are sort of infamous for nazis and brigading, unfortunately. There have been enough incidents that some moderators block first and ask questions later.