It’s absolutely a bad book having it be the flagship instance.

Yeah, I absolutely agree. I am generally pretty open minded, I thought the tankies were really neat when I first was poking around with Lemmy, it was only further experience and the censorship and total unlistening unreasonableness that turned me against them. Most people in the world are not that open minded. If there’s a network founded and operated by people who are hostile, communist, and clearly unhinged and irrational, throwing bans and pictures of pig shit around, most people are going to go to Bluesky and they’re going to think you’re kind of stupid for continuing to put up with this other network that’s for losers and not worth spending energy on.