My experience with lemmy has not been nice. A majority of people there are just downright awful, and the mods are often power-hungry and overzealous in their actions. Many times entire servers are defederated from many others due to how a large percentage of their users behave.
Example: https://0x0.st/8RmU.png
Lemmy has the same energy as ice: a bunch of rejects from other mod communities showing up to render their version of justice upon federated folks
Yeah, the primary instance (lemmy.ml) isn't the best.
I use mander.xyz, it's science focused, but they also have a policy of only de-federating instances that host CSAM.
> A majority of people there are just downright awful, and the mods are often power-hungry and overzealous in their actions.
If you're telling me it's _worse_ than reddit in this regard, I can only imagine how terrible it is.
Despite its flaws, X seems to have a better balance between what's allowed and what's not than other non-niche social networks.