The curse of reddit alternatives. It's always some fringe group that starts it and scares everyone else off. I was an early Lemmy adopter but being from post-soviet country just couldn't handle the ignorant tankie politics being injected into every discussion. There's just no sane leadership.

It's run by the liberal equivalent of Evangelists, with all the moralistic and obsessive baggage that comes with it. Unless you're in the group that runs it, you're not going to be able to use it.