So… basically, all this time I’ve been using what started out as an alt-left version of Truth Social?
While this does explain a LOT, I’m still gonna keep using Lemmy since a lot of good has definitely come out of it too (think the antique memes, c/nostupidquestions and the one-user art c/‘s), and unlike Reddit it’s open-source, so even the corrupt programmers lack complete control over it; every instance is merely a reflection of the person who made it. And at least .world has somewhat saner people, which is probably why its native user accounts outnumber ml ones nearly 4:1. What are they gonna do, double-block this community from ml?
Pretty much yeah.
Though mind you, about a year or so ago, the developers refused to act on the extremist content, not allowing any programmer to edit the slur or filter list. They eventually caved, though.