If you're looking for a new platform lemmy is probably your best bet, at least if a server goes down everything is still saved on federated servers.

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MildlySerious 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I do have a lemmy account, but have not really returned to it in a while. Maybe I haven't found the right communities yet, but it had nothing about it that felt engaging. People upvoted, but nobody talked. No interaction. Digg felt more alive from day one. I replied to a post in a niche community with ~100 members and only afterwards realized it was @justin.

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ranger_danger 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

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pmdr 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Despite its flaws, X seems to have a better balance between what's allowed and what's not than other non-niche social networks.

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joeross 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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RobotToaster 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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ranger_danger 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Where is that policy located? I could not find it.

Their /instances page also only shows a single blocked instance, whereas something like programming.dev shows lots of questionable instances blocked.

	▲	RobotToaster 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Honestly, I couldn't find it either, but the owner talks about it in his post about blocking threads https://mander.xyz/post/1062661

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huhkerrf 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> 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.

	▲	gzread 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Lemmy is server software, it's like saying you don't use phpBB because it has bad mods