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They were founded after being kicked off reddit, then self isolated from the fediverse for years, creating the echoiest of echo chambers. It's like those Appalachian families that were so isolated they basically developed their own culture, language and all. They've spent too long "struggle sessioning" together and driven out any of the more reasonable users with their purity tests. They think they're the "true" Lemmy users and only refederated to "spread the word" and antagonize all the "liberals" (read: anyone that's not 100% with them). The one thing I dislike about my server is that they haven't defederated from that place.
What purity test exactly do you feel is too much? Respecting pronouns? Not supporting capitalism? Not doing racism? I'm not aware of anything they ban for that any reasonable leftist shouldn't pass.
Not sucking Xi's or Putins dick for one, tankie
Anti-imperialism should not wrap around to supporting everyone and everything fighting against the imperial core. You can theorize about the social conditions that inevitably led to Putin's existence or share statistics about development in China, but you shouldn't ignore it when either does something bad just because “the US is also doing that/something similar!!!”