Eh, I think you're projecting. He literally owned his instance. He was playing with his own ball at his own house and you got "butthurt" because he didn't want to play with you.
It's no secret that a lot of people are attracted to Lemmy because they felt Reddit mods were too overbearing, but some of us like Lemmy because we didn't think Reddit mods were doing enough about the overbearing users.
He said "this" experiment, not "the fediverse" which I interpreted to mean his instance (or perhaps Lemmy).
That said, I'm honestly curious what do you care about his "toxicty" if he's not an admin of your instance? You don't seriously believe you have a right to dictate what he does with his own hardware do you?
I'm glad we agree.
What did you interpret the premise to be? I read the post when it was up, and it read to me like OP was saying essentially that too many toxic users and not enough admins willing to stand up to them make the overall experience not fun.
EDIT: Which is accurate in my mind at least when it comes to Lemmy
Using recycled parts is the best advice. As you said, it's almost certainly overkill and the price can't be beat.
Hilarious that that account's made a single comment pushing back on classic lemmy hysteria/paranoia and then apparently left the platform.
I think quote posts are undesirable for the reasons you mentioned but I have to accept that it will be huge for adoption, and the flip side (promoting others work in a positive light) is also going to be really great.
I like where your head's at, but Mastodon's system of verification seems much easier to me and doesn't rely on a third party.
Lemmy does feel more and more like 4chan every day...
This is literally literally a drama article
Doesn't seem to be stopping you from trying!