db0 also seems pretty well run.

I honestly don’t understand the big issue with hexbear. They seem to be quite progressive, and I’ve yet to have a bad interaction with anyone from that instance. Maybe I just got lucky though. Anecdotes aren’t data, after all.

I wouldn’t really recommend lemmy.ml or hexbear.net since they’re really not better than lemmy.world.

That’s a very polite way to say what everybody thinks.