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It's a weird question. Like 'are grapes like oranges'.
Mastodon is a federated ('Fediverse' due to use of ActivityPub protocol) microblogging (think twitter) software, same with Pleroma and some others. Admins can host their own website and set their own rules, those websites can interact with other sites.
Lemmy is also a federated (Fediverse) software, but it's a link aggregator (think reddit). We're on the lemmy.ml instance, which has its own topic and rules. There are some other ones that aim to be more liberal, and a few that try to be 'free speech', but are inevitably flooded by its own echo chamber of the kind of people other places don't want around.
Yes*. Although not each site on that net wants to be wild. If I'm having a serious discussion on a site where that's expected (like a science topic forum), why should we tolerate someone with no idea what they're talking about spamming unconstructive rambling about them hating us? So you inevitably do get communities and social circles that do make restrictions and enforce them in order to function, even on alleged 'free speech' sites. It's all about finding the right sites, rather than expecting every site to have to listen to everything.