I had considered setting up an account on beehaw, but the no downvotes thing really bothers me. Plus it still has the no NSFW problem. There’s only a couple people I’ve seen so far on lemmy.ml that post Russian and Chinese propaganda that I’ve had to block, but I also understand that they aren’t technically violating the rules of the server so there’s nothing the admins can (or should) do in those cases. I’m a strong believer in freedom of speech so I’m against censorship in general however I also feel that the corollary to that is that nobody should be subjected to something without their consent. If it becomes more of a problem I might look for a different server, but unfortunately lemmy.ml is one of the biggest instances so many of the communities I’m interested in are based out of it. Even if I registered elsewhere I think I’d still end up subscribed to several of its communities.

Longer term, I feel as if the federation model of lemmy is slightly misaligned. Like the communities and users should be more decoupled or something. I don’t know, don’t have a good solution, just a general feeling like all the pieces don’t quite fit together right currently, but they’re close.