It's clear lemmy.world has been infested by malicious actors with an agenda. I want to get as far away from this as possible, but still have access to most of the fediverse.
Is there a list of general Lemmy servers? I would like a server that isn't so gung-ho about censorship and instead trusts users to be their own censors.
LW didn't block DB0 entirely, just those two specific communities. Otherwise, SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com wouldn't have been able to reply to you (nor you reply to them)
I'm on lemmy.today. Their policy is to try to avoid defederation with anyone, let the users decide what to block on a per-account basis, so if that's what you want, might be what you're looking for.
They're US West Coast.
Keep in mind that there's a lot of stuff out there on the Threadiverse, and if you want an unfiltered view of things, they may show up in your "All" feed.
Lemmy instances have their rules in the sidebar. You can also look at the list of instances that they've federated/defederated with at /instances, like http://lemmy.world/instances ; that can give you an idea of what instances they're okay with too.