I joined lemmy after severe frustration with other platforms. It feels like genuine online human forums that are devoid of bots simply do not exist anymore. It also feels like people are more ok with understanding less and less about the world around them, so long as they have an echo chamber in their phone that aligns with their worldview. Is lemmy actually a better environment? You’d think that if you care enough to end up here that you also care enough to notice the world around us dramatically changing. I’m not looking for an answer or an action, just an acknowledgment that the world feels to be on a downward spiral.
Most drama you’ll see on Fediverse will involve leadership, moderators, and power-users within the following groups who don’t like each other:
Anarchist faction: db0, quokk, nexus, etc
Tankie faction: .ml, Leningrad, hexbear, etc
Liberal faction: status quo enforcers .world, the biggest instance unfortunately. Feddit, etc.
Powertripping/insane mods and admins. A modicum of online power goes to people’s heads here same as anywhere. Stick around long enough you’ll pick up on the repeat offenders via osmosis even if you don’t actively dig up dirt.
Manipulative narrative control obsessed web and app developers. Lemmy and Piefed both have awful people as lead developers. Then there was Tesserect which… recent drama. I’m not getting into it unasked.
Good news is you picked a good home instance with .zip as far as I know.
Not everyone on .world is a liberal. Some of us just joined for the stability.
I know, I had hoped the first sentence covered that but yeah to be clear it’s not like everyone on a specific instance is hive-minded with the instance admins.