Ah the male Draenei dance!

Simple—just don't pay for the premium tier. Free one is good enough for most.

"Oh hey buddy, I don't think you should have the same rights as everyone else and you probably shouldn't even exist. Let's just laugh and smile and grab a drink, hahah"

Yeah... No.

Nobody is born Christian or capitalist. People are taught it. It's not an innate property of a person. You can choose to not be either of those at any point in time.

If you're allowing this kind of discourse towards LGBT persons, communities, etc. but still enforcing anti-racial policies then you're obviously well uninformed and taking a specifically and completely anti LGBT stance, be it knowingly or unknowingly.

And who exactly is forcing you to use it?

You can use your old backups as well to restore settings. The only thing that didn't work for me was the theme, but it was an easy fix. Good to be back.

By starting a Lemmy instance a year and a half before Rexxit?

By not being prepared for it. It was setup with default communities, like technology for example (correct me if I'm wrong), but no plan to deal with those with moderation capabilities and levels that reach their own standard. To me it's only making the entire experience untrustworthy and stunted. Somehow lemmy.world and others can deal with it without defederating others so that's where I'll go.

To me the whole situation is a "they bit off more than they could chew" kind of thing so you pull the nuclear option.. Honestly I'm avoiding subscribing to any beehaw communities because I won't be able to see any posts made from one of the most populous instances, hence diminishing their value. As a general user I would avoid signing up for beehaw as well for the same reasons.