Lemmy

Thankfully they had the evidence pinned for some time:

Beehaw is a community of individuals and therefore does not have any specific political affiliation.

Later:

Some of the instances that we have chosen to defederate with have explicit political stances and ideologies. Their political stance and ideology had nothing to do with the choice to defederate. The choice to defederate was based on the amount of hate speech present on the instance and/or explicitly endorsing it.

And there's more but you can just read it yourself:

https://beehaw.org/post/524300?scrollToComments=true

Obviously I support cracking down on hate speech, you can see my activity throughout this thread, which consists entirely of me doing that while taking maybe two or three asides to knock beehaw when someone else mentioned it. What I don't support is taking the absurd position that it's not a political stance.

Of course, this all works as an excellent bit of smoke and mirrors for an audience of credulous radlibs to whom you don't want to confess you are splitting with instances that are decidedly to your left -- such as Hexbear.net , the only instance which actually has site-mandated use of self-identified pronouns, which was put on the blacklist pre-emptively before it had federated with anyone (and it still hasn't) for reasons that the userbase are left to conclude are "hate speech" or its "endorsement".