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OK, thanks for the explanations, it's actually easier to understand when you know the whole story.There's no actual animosity between the sites. The word filter that blocks the other site's name is for LC's protection.
This all started when a quite nice game with (VERY painterly/cartoony/unrealistic) AI art got all its LC links mass-reported by Pixel Puritans, to Cloudflare and to LC's then-hosting provider, which got LC taken down and caused all of this mess. The eventual result was the LC COIN system and Games+ being stuck behind the paywall/activitywall.
There are some users on both sites that have wildly inaccurate ideas of what the other site is, and their assumptions of animosity are what people see and assume are universal. I've posted there a few times explaining this, too, but their users are not particularly well-informed because the site's format makes it extremely difficult to find anything.
(There are also a couple devs who primarily post things there who get upset about piracy (don't start the argument here), and at least one dev who is upset that their game got posted in Games+ because they see that as a paywall, and therefore have accused LC of profiting off their game.)
And for LC users: the other site is just a forum with very few restrictions. That's all it is. What you choose to consume or post there is up to you. Registering an account there is not dangerous unless your internet is being monitored by someone who knows what that site is and is going to make a big deal about it.