It’s a “sarcasm” symbol, but it basically boils down to “just joking around”. Spanish speakers also use (?) For the same purpose

I’m not completely sure, but I think every instance can block/ban certain users. So if you post in lemmygrad with a lemmygrad user, then only lemmygrad mods/admins will be able to ban you yes.

This is all very good info.

I don’t see the liberals banning American “patriots” anytime soon.

Wouldn’t they ban right-wing USA is the best country ever people too?

I believe they take the safe route of “everyone is bad, nothing is worth supporting”. So any positive opinion on any side of the issue is a problem, they have to maintain everything neutral to keep the “safe space”.

I would not mind having right-wing people having communities in an instance I’m in. I’d either try to reason with them or ignore them. Or try to lurk and understand how they are so fucked up. The banning looks more like “we don’t want to deal with uncomfortable stuff, no talk about bad stuff”.

The real question is if lemmy.world allow praise of the ccp, because apparently “no tankie” is an unspoken rule.