Weirdly glad to see your experiences mirror mine, even if they make a sad reality.

Idk. Doesn’t bode well for Lemmy long term, they make the entire software stink

This is my concern, too. I do respect what they’ve created - getting social networking out of the hands of corporations and functioning as a decentralized collective is a good idea - but as I said somewhere else, the ideology that led to this shared goal looks to be problematic. I have no interest in trading capital-fascism for good ol’ fashioned fascism.