It is a hate group in a way, it’s just what they hate is the US, capitalism, “the west”, etc. And their solution is “bring back the ussr at any cost”, so you see a lot of “Ukraine was totally asking for it” and similar.

For vlemmy it may be too late, the point is you can use this tool going forward at your next instance.

If I ever saw @aol.com as front desk in a hotel, I knew I was potentially in for a bad time!

Beehaw has chosen to defederate from lemmy.world so that makes sense.

What does “central app” mean to you? You’re aware the code base is shared right?

You are basically shadowbanned on their instance, as they won’t see the posts that you make.