Hey everyone ! About a year or so ago I've left Reddit and found my home here in Lemmy at ML, mainly because it was at the top of the instance list i saw at that time. So far it's been great, but I'm running into some issues. A lot of communities and instances are not federated with ML anymore and I'm interested in the content of those communities. I've kind of ignored it the first few times i couldn't find a community of my interests and later finding out it was because they were blocking ML (or perhaps vice-versa), but it has happened enough times that i wish to move on and find a new instance.

That being said and i hope I'm in the right community to ask this, i would like to request some suggestions for a new instance that is light on the power tripping mod rules and light on creating drama that gets the instance defederated around lemmy, from the personal experience of the fine folks around here. The mod thing didn't affect me much, i try to follow the rules and be respectful, but every other month i interact with users that hate ML mods so much that they tell me the moment they see my instance. Hopefully in the future I'd ideally get to interact with ML from an instance that's not defederated across Lemmy, where i can access more communities than from ML or Lemmygrad.

I'm hoping to not ruffle any feathers here, all i want is to participate in lemmy communities and i have nothing against anyone on ML. Like I said, other than being blocked from participating in other instances, it's been a pretty fair experience around here.