Edit: Seems like the Mod-Logs are public, so it’s not ‚secretly‘. My preferred mobile app doesn’t show this and for me the post just disappeared from my history.
Anyway, the breach of rule I allegedly did is obviously an excuse to block inconvenient opinions as it’s not at all related.
"ml" is the subdomain for the country of mali, but here it's short for "marxism-leninism".
the developers of the lemmy protocol (not the fediverse as a whole, just lemmy) also run lemmy.ml as the "flagship instance".
they are out and proud tankies, meaning their politics are reactionary america-bad first, and running full throated defense of russia, china, and north korea right behind that. despite the fact that none of these wannabe empires are politically even close to any marxist roots. any criticism or independent journalism is verboten.
many of the people on these instances are propagandized westerners, but there was also an observed drop in traffic following ukraine strikes on russian datacenters.
hexbear and lemmygrad are smaller, more commonly defederated instances with even higher concentrations of tankie bullshit. ml is the more moderate gateway that has established many foothold communities on the fediverse like the one OP is referencing.