You are such a silly goose, I love it

As always, there’s multiple reasons for things. You did a great job breaking down as much as possible :) the other comments are all right, but you are comprehensive :)

I’m not sure what you mean exactly… Just looked in my block list and I’ve blocked yiffit.net and like 6 or so anime communities, and I don’t remember the last time I had anime in my all feed.

As corollary to the other comments, lemmyverse.net to find non-political communities to subscribe to.

Pretty much what the other person said. There isn’t really a difference which server you’re on, lemmy.world is fine. But we go on Lemmy because we want a robust network that isn’t prone to central failure like reddit is - if theoretically everyone were on lemmy.world, then the situation really is no different than reddit. Someone could just buy the server/admins and do whatever they want, or the lemmy.world admins could just be evil in the first place.

For you not to be on lemmy.world is no disadvantage, just make sure whatever server you go to isn’t a walled garden and stopped talking to (“defederated”) lemmy.world, currently the only larger one that does that is beehaw.org.

Unfortunately (talking about federated services in general) there is a small bit of complexity that comes with spreading around the service across multiple servers. Lemmy tries to hide as much of it as possible from the end user, but it’s impossible to hide the effects completely. It’s kinda like democracy - it only really works well if every voter is informed, but even if they aren’t, it’s still better than an autocracy.

Hope you don’t use (almost) any other messaging app either. If a single unsubstantiated article is enough to make you stop using something, you should be using almost nothing anywhere.

Please don’t use lemmy.world as a generic instance example. Use one of the ones with smaller userbase.