EH and grad at least were defederated at some point after I signed up, so that does seem to indicate that Ernest doesn't want those kinds of users/content on here.
I don't think your stance is wrong though, and you should do what you need to do. Kbin wasn't ready for the influx of redditors, and we're seeing the effects of that now. I'm still hopeful that things will get cleaned up eventually, but we'll see.