I’m a bit late to this discussion, but I needed to get my first taste of political censorship on Lemmy first.

My experience was with the “hexbear.net” instance (former Chapo’s Trap House subreddit) which is currently federated with “lemm.ee”.

It shows up nicely in the feed, but if you go there to discuss, you get banned in a moment for stating commonly accepted facts because you’re “reactionary” - Wikipedia is also reactionary, as well as mainstream news - while users praising dictatorial regimes get upvoted and aren’t getting moderated.

Complete echo chamber. At such servers, there’s also no obvious recourse to get a ban or deletion reversed.

I would avoid federation with such places.