I’m as shitty as the people around me. Notice how I haven’t really had issues on any of the other instances? I don’t go around looking to start fights, I just have strong principles and refuse to back down for anything. Yes that’s going to be bad optics in some circumstances, that makes it really easy for them to find a good excuse to throw the hammer. Back in the day when I did care about optics people would just flat out make up a reason bordering defamation to get rid of me and everyone would buy it so as far as i’m concerned I’d rather it be for an honest reason than a made-up one. If you want to see an example of LW banning socialists just look at the rest of the mod log and you’ll notice a trend.
I got banned from hexbear because I pushed one of the admins on their pro-crypto stance (my take is that crypo is nazi shit) and they didn’t like I was talking back to them, everything else you see in the modlog is basically post-hoc justification. Lemmy world did it because I wouldn’t stop calling fascists on their shit. Those are the real reasons why i’m banned from those instances.