I’m not a huge fan of instance blocking especially when community blocking is usually enough but it’s good people can identify extremism coming from the left too.
Me neither, but some times people are quite unreasonable and one should have no realistic hope for coexistance. I know of several lemmy instances that got choked to death by lemmy.ml/lemmygrad and it only reinforced their grip on the lemmyverse. When one half of the lead lemmy devs hardcoded a block against using the Jerboa app with a certain instance, I understood there's no dialogue. No compromise.
Not only no coexistence but active eradication of any dissenting voice with every means reasonably available. I consider it evil.
The lemmyverse is currently in a social "revolution" due to demographic change. This should be the new normal. What happens if lemmy.ml is able to wrestle their way back as the default instance and end up in the same position again?
Irrelevance for them is better for all of us. If some or all instances block them, I don't think I could care less at this point. I would have before a certain lead dev showed how hateful they are and willing to use what they present as a gift to humanity and society as a tool of control.
I hate having to go there but