Yes… but the meme doesn’t work if said practice is barely on the scale.

Because yeah, there are some REALLY sketchy registrars. Working with the “reputable” ones and now taking advantage of a nation’s country code for the lulz (see: .ml) keeps you pretty safe.

… if DNS is the worst capitalist practice you know of then you REALLY should spend less time shitposting and more time paying attention to the world.

Yeah…

Spend some time in the “I hate reddit and am glad I am never going back but do you think reddit still thinks about me and hey, can I take a picture of your penis and send it to show reddit that my new boyfriend is massive?” communities. LOTS of the folk around here have those “I was banned for absolutely nothing” mentalities.

And it shows with how fast people are to “clown on” folk with just blatant insults.

Those folk aren’t at all exclusive to hexbear.

Lemmy, in general, is left leaning with the lead dev and “main” instance being unabashedly tankies.

Hexbear is the big instance of people who are so fucked they tend to get banned even from there. The ml crowd is generally still worth talking to. Whereas the hexbear crowd immediately jump to harassment the moment they decide you failed a purity test because you advocated for a social program rather than insisting the entire system needs to be burned down and a managed economy run by putin put in its place.

Needless to say: Anyone who spends enough time “on lemmy” is either on an instance that banned hexbear or muted them themselves.