This is again slander towards lemmygrad from sopuli. Lemmygrad is not an instance owned by Russia, nor is it paid by Russia, nor are we Russian agents.

The fact that Russia is at war and we talk about it on Lemmygrad, sometimes positively, has absolutely nothing to do with our rules and members. This:

it’s a bit weird when LGBTQ+ people would suggest being safe there – given how vehemently anti-LGBTQ Russia is.

Is two different observations that have nothing to do with each other. A non sequitur. It’s like chastising vegans for eating at a restaurant that also has meat options.

The dissonance here really is that sopuli and beehaw recruit by defaming Lemmygrad as if their instances had nothing to offer except anticommunism.

If queer people say that they feel safe on Lemmygrad the only answer is “banger”. Not implying they’re not being logical or that we are Russian agents.

So it’s dissonance for queer people to feel safe on lemmygrad (a forum that explicitly bans queerphobia) because of some positive sentiment for Russia in certain regards

Meanwhile: Conversion therapy is legal in every European country except France and Malta

Half of Europe still requires trans people to get sterilized. Most of Europe requires mental health diagnoses. Most don’t have anti-discrimination laws. Italy requires trans people to get divorced. Most of Europe doesn’t recognize trans parenthood. Iceland is the only European country that recognizes non-binary people.

Don’t even get me started on what the UK and the US are doing about trans people. Would you like to read some articles about how “safe” queer people are in Ukraine?

So does your instance allow pro-European conversation? Shouldn’t queer people feel unsafe in forums that say anything pro-US? Pro-Ukraine? Pro-EU?

Or is it ridiculous to call that dissonance?

You talk like the instance is centred around Russia. Russia is just one of the many things the we talk about there.