I tend to prefer neutrality, even over objectivity. I hope Lemmy can be a place where I can find vast amounts of information in general, as well as a variety of knowledges, experiences, contents, and views. Even incorrect ones. I am less interested in single narratives, even if they seem cohesive or confirm my own biases

You will be welcome here and I think you have chosen the right place! Lemmy by design federates (integrates to use another term) with every other “activity pub” enabled software. You can see the complete list of every server we (Reddthat) are connecting with: https://reddthat.com/instances . (It’s at the bottom of every page)
If you manage to scroll alllllllllll the way down to the bottom, you will only see 3 instances we are blocking, and those are the developers’ test instances. Where they test the latest version of Lemmy, as well as other items. It is a very small list of blocks that we do on an instance level. Users are welcome to block as many other users or communities as they wish.

We might be one of the biggest instances that still federates with, what others would classify as, “problematic” instances. You can read more about my stance on ensuring we federate with everyone here https://reddthat.com/comment/371578 and then the followup comment here: https://reddthat.com/comment/372073 .

Reddit seemed to provide at least some of this in a better way than many other social media

Something I like to tell people face-to-face is Lemmy isn’t Reddit. It’s Reddit-like. We don’t need to be the same as Reddit, so why don’t we try something different. Something better. At the end of the day if people don’t like it here they can migrate to another instance. I hope they don’t, but they can! There is zero lock-in. There are even Lemmy migration applications popping up. A great win for the users.

I wouldn’t want Reddthat to be the biggest instance. There have already been issues with 3 (at the time) biggest instances and now they no longer talk to each other. (See here: https://reddthat.com/post/35469)

Our (all lemmy instances) explosive growth has happened in what amounts to less than 2 months. We are still in our infancy. There will be roadblocks, there will be issues, and there will be differentiation of opinion. I hope Reddthat can come out on top as a place where everyone is welcome. As long as they can be civil of-course 😜 .

I don’t know whether any of this is helpful or not. (If not, eh, ban me? 😊)

This is always beneficial to hear! No-one on reddthat who can have an actual conversation will be banned while I’m here. Hearing and learning from a differentiating point of view is how society works, and how we grow as people.

Tiff