One major issue with lemmy is centralization, its just leading to another reddit with everyone being concentrated on crappy major instances. Like, .world and beehaw is known to have some of the worst moderation, but that’s where a lot of people are concentrating. Centralization also leads to those few servers pushing every other instance around with the threat of defederation.

That said i find the people of lemmy to be generally better than the people of Reddit (who are in turn better than Twitter) at least. If you’re in anime lemmy you’re probably going to be talking to otaku, same for every other niche on lemmy even if it’s small. Much less chance of getting involved with the new puritan movement or children.

And it’s already my new primary form of social media!