As I was getting into Lemmy and learning about federation and its ugly sister, defederation, I came across a github page with a large list of instances, along with various points of data for each instance - one of which was number of other instances that have defederated from this one.

Being a proponent of moral relativism, I had to check out the more marginalized communities. Exploding Heads and Lemmygrad weren’t for me, but Burggit…

A couple weeks and a few morally repugnant posts later, here I am.