Sad but true. Matches everything I've seen and complained about over the last ~3 years. It looked so promising at first and then....turned into everything you just said. Lol, we should compare block/ban lists sometime - there's probably a LOT of overlap. Are you at doomprepper.com by chance?

Honestly, the Fediverse needs a schism if it's going to survive beyond being a haven for people that are too toxic to be platformed anywhere else. Not so much a split based on ideology but on pushing the extremist, antisocial, violent, troll people to the fringe instances so the sane people might actually stick around.

I thought we might be seeing the first steps of that with LW taking a stand against .nexus, but they've since re-fedded and I'm not at all confident they're going to cut off dbzer0 and nexus which are two of the worst widely federated instances for platforming violent crazies (grad and hexbear are worse but they're pretty widely blocked, and .ml is sadly too big for most instances to cut off).

It's totally possible to block and ban and defederate enough to make this a nice place, but it's a LOT of never-ending, thankless work as I'm sure you've noticed. The problem is few admins want to actually do that (and some are part of the problem), so the default experience for someone who isn't a crazy, violent antisocial extremist nutjob (i.e. most people) makes them want to nope out immediately.

Thank you for your kind words, the feelings are mutual - you were definitely one of the bright sides on Lemmy.

I currently need a break from Lemmy but if I ever come back, your instance is definitely the one I'll be joining.

Thank you as well, you were always helpful on Matrix and I really appreciate it.

Looks like the instance went down a bit earlier than expected

I've only just seen this.

Thank you for running this instance! Until it got blocked from the UK (I understand the reasons but it made it difficult to tell whether it was up or down, and is also the reason I've only just seen this post) it was my favourite place to host general communities.

Unless there's any update on this I will begin to migrate my communities elsewhere (probably db0).