My random choice of instance over a year ago with zero research has worked out well so far.

Most important is that passwords are always censored for others: ********

Just in case anyone needs to investigate what instances are federated/defederated from each other.

https://defed.xyz/

My instance has no censorship and federates with all, and moderation only happens for obvious illegal content, not someone having an opinion that is not popular.

To me, it's what the fediverse is supposed to be, so very happy.

Massive fan of feddit.uk and Lemm.ee, moderation has been great, feddit.uk the admin have shown a willingness and urgency in helping user. My personal experience; helping with resetting a backend issue effecting my account and looking into bot'ed down voting when I DM'd them.

Lemm.ee is just good with their federation philosophy which can be found on the sidebar.

I haven’t had a single issue with feeling censored at DB0. If anything, it is users from other instances acting like they own the whole Fediverse that I have occasionally had a problem with, but I don’t think any of them were moderators.

Pretty good, it only defeds from two instances, one used by pedos and threads.

I've been on Lemmy for 4 months now. I've never had any problems with the rules. In fact, I haven't had any problems with any of the instances so far, even those that people consider "extreme" (like Hexbear and Lemmy.ml, people often complain about problems with their users, I personally haven't had any problems at all with them; on the contrary, I usually interact there in a productive and peaceful way, even when I disagree with them on some things).

I think it has more to do with people's behavior than with the strictness of certain instances/communities. I always try to be respectful. Respectfulness is the key.

Doesn't impact me so fine with it.