most of the instances I could find were filled with liberal centrists who call themselves leftist, and hate actual theory-reading commies.
something politically like lemmy.ml or even like lemmygrad would be perfect.
it also shouldn’t be heavily defederated against
I tend to understand marxism as a much broader philosophy. Ive been heavily influenced by Marxist anarchist and Marxist feminist writers that don’t fall into much conversation with Leninism or maoism. So I guess my lived experience has shown otherwise to your assessment. But I also am interested in learning more.