lemmy.ml seems to have built a reputation too, which is interesting. I never had any poor interactions (yet) with any moderation across the fediverse, but it’s interesting to see the effects of moderation style impacting instances.
It's interesting, because moderation here is public: you can check the modlog at the bottom of the page to see what was removed. Transparency is awesome, plus you get to see what mods have to deal with every day.
This does so much more to keep people honest too. If anything, it should build consensus. "Here's the really fucked up thing John Doe said" and rational people would see it and go "yeah, damn, good move" instead of the chamber of hidden secrets system Reddit had.
Asshole mods can get called out while shitty users are way more obvious.
I'm not going anywhere. Feels more like home tbh. Curious how it evolves as people sort themselves out, and what kind of interaction we get, if any, among the different communities with different opinions. I'm sure there'll be drama lol. Here for it.
This post was very helpful for that: https://lemmy.world/post/266744
The same person has 2 other chapters that were very helpful for me. Check them out!
I'm in Kbin on my phone. If I open a post that was made in Lemmy and it looks like a community I want to follow, I scroll tk the bottom of the post. There should be the name of the Lemmy community with an icon, and underneath it a subscribe button. I just click on that to subscribe to that specific Lemmy community.