I think it's less that some instances are worse and more that people have consolidated into a few instances and turned eviler.

I'm guessing this ban was on lemmy.ml? They'll ban you for not sucking Xi Jinping's peepee enthusiastially enough.

That "let's talk about politics" always gets bad and become food for trolls. You can't expect to get treat well. The only thing you can do is to follow every trend and vote down the few others. Perhaps that helps to feel a little bit better over the day? Ok this may be negative.

Positive are groups about special interests eg Emacs. This are more hidden pearls with no trolling and banning. Perhaps if an aggressive Vim-User comes around? I don't know. 😆

Blocking makes it better here. After 6 weeks blocking every day a lot, it's nice here now. Would be nice a user could block hole instances. Or blocking with filters. Eg Musk or some flags. What ever you want.

This is a popular opinion, but only because most Lemmy users think this post isn't about them.

Mastodon's got some professional machiavellian gaslighters on it, I promise you.

Until some Fediverse portion grows spine-enough, and methodical-systematic-process-enough, to mitigate the malevolent, then they always will win.

That's how Natural Selection works.

That's why most natural/wild mammals are filled with parasites & things, in their "utopian heaven".

We do have the potential to do better, but it requires a bedrock of spine & uprightness, of carefully blocking malevolence, & not-permitting it to own/torque our world.

I'll not "hold my breath" waiting for it.

Considered-reason's the toughest position to hold-onto, as ALL ideology/prejudice wants it obliterated, left & right, theist-religion-ideologies & anti-theist-ideologies, ALL want their ideological/prejudice supremacism.

The Great Filter, it is called: a world-species reaches adult-technology while still fundamentally unconscious-mind toddler.

Consequences are .. "expressed"/enforced.