r/Lemmy right now is full of posts basically talking about how bad Lemmy is handling right now.

It’s a bad look and will probably hurt the migration.

I know we are moving off of Reddit but the Lemmy subreddit needs some positivity for people looking to migrate

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    Yeah that was the advice I found too, but from what I’ve seen so far, I don’t think I agree with it. My initial fed account was on kbin, and I very quickly ran into the issue that I couldn’t use Jerboa because of that, cuz Jerboa is made specifically for Lemmy and requires a Lemmy login.

    There was some drama going on with an instance called exploding.heads right when I joined – apparently they were a bunch of neonazis and Lemmy (or kbin? idr) decided to defederate with them, cuz fuck Nazis. So, definitely glad I didn’t just random click over there initially and start my account there.

    There’s also lemmygrad.ml, which from what I’ve seen so far are a bunch of Putin apologists. Unsure if they’re defederated - feel like I saw them a lot initially and not so much anymore, but they’re basically the left wing equivalent to exploding.heads.

    There’s a NSFW instance, there’s a bunch of language-specific instance, …you get the point.

    Where you start your account will 100% influence your experience with the fediverse, and that isn’t very well acknowledged on any guides I saw for new user orientation.