Like it or not, the reality is that regions in the East of Ukraine were very much on record as supporting Yakunovych, and closer relations with Russia, for decades. There’s only one reason the Minsk agreements fell through, and it’s because they did not want to give eastern regions autonomous votes.

If the other half of your country coup’d your president, half-outlawed your language and ignored the political will of your half of the country, you might have a right to be upset and label that suppression.

Anarchists are explicitly welcome, so authoritarianism is definitely not a requirement. And what “alternative facts”?

This is objectively untrue, Lemmy.world refused to ever federate, as, in their own words, a “pre-emptive last resort”.

In their statement, the reasoning they explicitly highlighted was Hexbear’s stances like being against western propaganda and disliking the mass overseas wars driven by the US. Don’t believe me? You can read it here - https://lemmy.world/post/2498330

So no, Hexbear was very explicitly defederated because of politics.

You know mod logs on Hexbear are public, right? It’s very, very clear that “giving links” is not why you were banned.