[LTom]

I think they should be able to govern their instance as they wish, but it's odd that they don't understand that putting (for example) criticism of the Chinese communist party under a general anti-racism rule — without explicitly mentioning this — is rather confusing. It's certainly not what the average new user would understand as racism.

This specific ideological slant is also not clear from its description on the instance list[0], especially when compared to instances like Lemmygrad.

[0]https://join-lemmy.org/instances

[Engineering-MD]

Yes you’ve hit the nail on the head. It’s made out to be relatively censorship light, but in reality it isn’t. Things just need to be clear and up front so users know whether they want to use that instance.