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You're on an instance that is defederated from communist instances, effectively censoring them. Either admit that you're fine with censorship in general but don't like it being used against you, or move to an instance that is more broadly federated.
Fact: I was aware of the existence of piefed, but gave zero fucks about it. The specific reason that I looked further into piefed, was some .ml user chirping them in a software update announcement.
I saw that, reflected on how I've been treated by .ml moderators, and signed up.
I'm on piefed specifically because of how .ml is moderated, and because it causes consternation in people who insist that Stalin was a really good guy.
There are less censored Piefed instances than Piefed.world, you chose one that censored views you disagree with. Either way, that's an odd way to choose software. Plus, Piefed.world is still federated with Lemmy.ml. Honestly, if Piefed.world treats you without censorship, that says more about them considering your history of neo-Nazi support and dehumanization of ethnicities.
As for Stalin, he was the leader of the world's first federation of socialist states during their most tumultuous period, and did a good job in doing so. Far better than contemporaries like Churchill, Truman, and FDR, not to mention Hitler. He made mistakes and errors, there's no denying that, but he was certainly on the right side of history.