I don’t fully understand how to pick an instance to be honest.
Are the main things: operations, moderation, and federated instances?
I appreciate the suggested pivot in tone: The fediverse still confuses me at times: finding communities, subscribing to communities, and staying logged in have all been problems I have. I came originally for ergonomic keyboards, joined a few more communities and found that I can visit daily and see a page of interesting and relevant posts.
I still visit both Reddit and lemmy.world. I really want fediverses and community owned instances to become mainstream. I’m really tired of enshittification and mis-moderation of Reddit and Facebook, which is why I’m here. So to see a massive mishandling of moderator powers here, without the result removing the moderator which I think is appropriate in this case, is a huge setback for me. A moderator of lemmy.world single-handedly disenfranchised an entire community. That sucks. And not only did it suck there in /c/vegan, but now even the comments here people are continuing the argument. Just really twisting that knife of disenfranchisement into the broader community.
Fortunately, I can explore joining a different instance and avoid lemmy.world communities; something I can’t do with Reddit or Facebook.
I know this is the internet, so my expectations should be pretty low, but I’m honestly really disheartened and taken aback by all of the comment sections on the posts related to this one. Everyone just spewing opinions, no facts, no research, just hearsay. We are a very disappointing group of people I’d say and we should try and do better.
I’m also really disheartened by the actions that took place in /c/vegan that this post is describing that caused policy changes. Another example for me on why anarchy and removing power structures is needed.

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