There are a lot of tanky posts coming from lemmy.ml. Their whole purpose seems to be to troll and spread their bullshit far and wide. They are nearly as bad as the alt-right. They argue in bad faith and celebrate authoritarian oppression. The beehaw mods might want to consider defederating.
@AdmiralPatrick has said it in a way I cannot improve much. I had a very similar timeline of despair and defederating .ml was like a breath of fresh air. There was a user or two questioning it, but in the end I’m very happy with the decision.