I'm trying out lemmy and enjoying it so far it feels more engaging (I was using baconreader and had a lot of smaller communities). I loved reddit for what it was and am pissed at corporate assholes ruining it for profits. Lemmy has made the internet feel a little bigger again.

I'd say each instance host is their own dictator, but there are so many hosts that you can always move to another if you dont like what theyre doing. It's not like you're stuck spending money to jump from one to a next and apps like Jerboa let you copy your instance accounts to eachother.