Free is good, of course. But I also have some gripes about how Band functions so I'm interested to see what else is out there. Thanks for the Campfire recommendation; I will check it out.
Though, depending on the geology, you might not want to build a town on the resulting site. Sometimes heavy metals leach out of the disturbed rock, resulting in polluted surface water.
While not being exactly what you are proposing, you could consider mastodon.social and lemmy.world the de facto front page for each service. They are by far the largest and best-known instances in their respective networks. Many new users start at those instances, get their toes wet, and then branch out.
I'm not arguing that's how the network should be structured, though.
We should be getting some vote analytics in the future, which will be great. Lemmy seems to have a significant number of vote manipulation accounts that only exist to upvote/downvote in unison, but they are currently hard to find. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5669
I really should open an issue to improve the reports queue. It's tolerable if you mod an individual community or a smaller instance, but it is unusable as an admin on a really big instance like .world. There is no way to search or sort the reports. You can filter by posts or comments but then it only shows you 20 entries, which is a weird and unhelpful limitation. All reports have equal priority; there is no mechanism for users to flag reports that should be escalated to admins. And, if something is heavily reported, there is no way to batch resolve the reports after you address the issue.
Remember that interviews go both ways. You are trying to see if this company is a place you want to spend half your waking hours. Ask the interviewer where they see themselves in 5 years. Watch their reaction closely. Do they sigh, or hesitate? You might get a telling bit of honesty out of them.
Yes, the more rural and conservative states have more guns per capita. But even little New Jersey, with "only" 1.1 guns per 1,000 residents, has over 102k guns in the state. Nobody in the US is lacking for access to firearms.
The 1st Amendment hasn't stopped the current administration from deporting hundreds of legal residents for simply voicing their political opinions. Constitutional rights aren't worth the paper they're written on.
And did you see today's news? We're arresting judges now.
Free is good, of course. But I also have some gripes about how Band functions so I'm interested to see what else is out there. Thanks for the Campfire recommendation; I will check it out.