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

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

Hm. It's unclear if the second comment is in good faith. If it's not, it's OK for it to be deleted. In my opinion there is a huge problem with Reddit mods: they are perceived as draconian, yet they actually remove only 1% of bad comments. It's pretty much impossible to moderate successfully on a per-comment basis in any sizeable community. So, the mods only moderate submissions.

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.