I've only been here for a few days, so I don't know the "history" of lemmygrad and its relationship with the other instances. Do we have a running count of the instances that have blocked us?
I know they're ignorant liberals, and obviously as a principled Marxist I'm ready to respond to their pre-programmed, anti-Marxist rhetoric, but there's communities on Reddit in which I'd never had a single interaction with someone spewing anti-ML bullshit.
For example, I'm very interested in NBA basketball. I like to be involved in the drama around the game. If a large group of NBA enthusiasts start a community on an instance that has us blocked, I'm locked out because the administrators of that instance shit their little britches seeing a passionate Marxist speak their mind on lemmygrad. I was thinking about starting a community here for the NBA, hopefully we gather enough members to facilitate content creation in smaller communities, despite the rampant blocking.
Edit: Now that I think about it, honestly I think I'm fine just making communities for shit I'm interested in here, regardless of our connection to those other instances. Looking through the ones I know have blocked us made me cringe off the face of the planet. Wouldn't even want to talk basketball with them.
easiest way is to make a lemmy.ml account imo. I will be honest, it's both a little grim (in that it will be hard to interact with a lot of people) and nice (that we wont have to deal with the worst of the lib brainrot), but for the most part if you see an instance you don't recognize probably safe to assume they block us. There are a couple, like blahaj, that are ok with us but the biggest libby instances are blocking us on creation
i don't really get it, how is lemmygrad different from lemmy? one needs two accounts? one is lib and one is not? could you explain if you have a sec?