Sorry for the late reply. I think most of the confusion comes down to the design of lemmy. Because of the federation aspects that allows content to be easily shared between instances, it seems to me (and seemingly most other people newer to lemmy) that lemmy is designed as a primarry single network of multiple maintainers. which may have separate networks that are de-federeated from the rest (mostly private communities or free speech absolutists instances)

Additionally, lemmy.ml does not explicitly say anywhere on their front page that they are intended as a political instance. Neither does [email protected] make any mention that it is intended for political use. If you want to avoid people complaining about this, than some way to distinguish them is absolutely necessary, as I did not know about [email protected] because everyone on my instance just defaulted to [email protected].

If we want to avoid this, there needs to be a clearer indication that [email protected] is intended for political use and individuals should use [email protected] for non political use.