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Your analogy doesn't work because nobody is talking about shutting their instances down or "taking them over" they are free to have their space and network with aligned instances.
But the rest of the network is also not obligated to federate with them and allow their misinformation to spread.
I think kuato meant how Lemmy was created due to those devs being kicked off of Reddit for being too toxic.
And unlike Lemmy, Reddit really was trying to cancel them, at least on their platform.
Fwiw I didn't want to cancel Lemmy.ml nor even want to defederate from it... at first. I only wished for it to label itself properly, as e.g. Beehaw has done. If it said like "we are a tankie instance and absolutely no criticism of Russia, China, or North Korea will be tolerated here, and we WILL ban you from communities that you've never even so much as heard of all across our entire instance if you ever do anything that we do not like". Beehaw has a message along those lines, and it is getting along just fine. However, it seems like it would limit the influence of that instance if they were to be honest about application of that label so... they refuse. And because of how they are tied to the sourcecode, UNLIKE Hexbear and lemmygrad, there are extraordinary few instance admins that will go against that.
I wish that I could praise the Lemmy devs for the good they have done, even while also criticizing them for the bad. However, the more that I learn the less ah... "compatible" with democratic principles their authoritarian actions seem to me.
Lemmy.cafe defederated just fine. The release announcements are made on the Lemmy blog too
Is also the only general instance of note to do so, I love it for it, but it doesn't make enough of a statement to the outside rep of the Threadiverse to make a damn for growth purposes. And I don't think the admin of .cafe has the resources to scale either, not like .world does so it's not like we can just massively dump newcomers to it either