Since Lemmy is federated, and the admins of each instance choose what’s allowed and what’s not in their own instance.
How do you feel about what’s allowed and what’s not in your current instance ?
I’ll start: I’ve read people complaining about my instance admins, but I haven’t experienced nor seen anything I specifically disagree with.
And I’ve read things they wrote that I absolutely agree with, like not federating with Meta under any circumstances.
So for now, I’m happy with it. If I get banned randomly, I don’t think I’d go to a different instance, though. I’d probably just stop visiting Lemmy altogether.
Lemmy.ml gets a bad reputation because they treat disagreement, trolling, and bigotry as interchangeable. They never seem to mind their own users twisting any argument beyond recognition - but sighing ‘I don’t want to deal with this anymore’ is unconscionably rude and must be punished.
Ideological bias is not the same thing as hypocritical enforcement of bad rules. And ‘be nice or else’ is a fucking terrible rule, no matter how consistently it’s applied. Sometimes “fuck off” is the right answer. Sometimes people really are assholes, and deserve to hear it, and the hierarchy of a leftist space declaring themselves the only people allowed to exercise that force is deeply ironic.