Nahvi

That makes sense and I probably should have considered it more, though I also thought it would be useful if the response was public. Since I went searching for it myself, I thought other new users might do the same.

Turns out that I completely misunderstood the community structure here. There is a good chance that I was the one being confusing.

Now that I know who you are, I have checked out The Agora and a lot of what you are saying has a bit more context. It seems I posted this in the wrong place and misunderstood the community structure here.

Thank you for your time responding. Once I spend a bit more time looking through The Agora, I may end up asking another question or two.

You might be right about that DM thing. I thought I was in a small enough instance to get a direct response that would be useful to future users who wanted to move over. It seems I have misjudged that.

I didn't mind a bit of discussion and question answering, but to be frank being thrown red-herrings and called a troll was definitely not my goal.

Ah, thank you for filling me in.

Thanks. I appreciate the sentiment.

Thank you for the suggestion, but their blocked instances list is about the same length as the one from lemmy.world

I hadn't really considered that whole instances would be banned for nothing more than having bots. I may need to look more into what lemmy.world was banning for.

Who are you? A few posts back, when you responded "anything else?", I checked to see if you were a mod of this community or admin of the instance but I don't see you in either list.

Seems like I would save myself sometime by creating a dozen different logins through the various instances. I am up to four now.

I guess using current number of blocked instances was not as useful of an indicator for finding an instance that was free-speech leaning, but not purists, as I thought it was.

That's okay. I appreciate the response anyways. It seems that I stepped in quite the pile today.

Sounds like you would be happier swapping instances.

I am not so sure that you read my post. This was the new instance that I went to because it had less blocked instances.

I will tell you that the more of these comments I read the more I am starting to think that I never left reddit and that few people, if any, bothered to read anything besides the title.