It’s a little better, because admins are free to differ. Only aggressively boring instances like Lemmy.world have a general “never be mean for any reason!!!” policy, and then cannot figure out why so many people talk about trolls. They specifically forbade it! Some communities elsewhere still foolishly demand “civility” through enforced politeness, as if that’s how good faith works, but at least they’re less robotic. I never want to suffer another community where hearing “clearly your arguments mean you just don’t like it” is tolerated but responding “fuck off if you’re gonna make shit up” is not.

But yeah, the mod of ShitJustWork’s inevitable conservative circlejerk is a coward and a liar who couldn’t handle detailed impersonal criticism of an article they posted. I waited out a ban for “strawmanning” that article… then came back and pointed out how every single complaint was objectively correct, undeniably relevant, and pretty fucking bigoted. But the real issue was always questioning their authoritah. Same as it ever was, for conservatives.

Also one silly community about humorous Spotify playlists was apparently shocked and offended that anyone would joke about them.