As much as I appreciate the community and users at Blahaj, in my personal experience, the moderation was fairly wanting. At least a year or two ago (not sure about now), they tolerated some pretty freakish right-wing people who enabled chasers and other weird shit on their communities.

As much as I appreciate the community and users, there are (or at least were) serious moderation problems on Blahaj, I did not feel safe there when I tried it a year or two ago.

Yep - It really is divide and conquer by the rich. Look at ‘the culture wars’, they will stoke anything to high hell if it gets poor people to stupidly discriminate and fight each other.

Some instances have a left-leaning culture. Lemmy.world definitively does not.

More of this weird mythological fearmongering. Absolutely nobody on any of those sites believe that Vladimir fucking Putin is a leftist. You are pulling this assertion straight from an uninformed ass.