Most drama you’ll see on Fediverse will involve leadership, moderators, and power-users within the following groups who don’t like each other:
Anarchist faction: db0, quokk, nexus, etc
Tankie faction: .ml, Leningrad, hexbear, etc
Liberal faction: status quo enforcers .world, the biggest instance unfortunately. Feddit, etc.
Powertripping/insane mods and admins. A modicum of online power goes to people’s heads here same as anywhere. Stick around long enough you’ll pick up on the repeat offenders via osmosis even if you don’t actively dig up dirt.
Manipulative narrative control obsessed web and app developers. Lemmy and Piefed both have awful people as lead developers. Then there was Tesserect which… recent drama. I’m not getting into it unasked.
Good news is you picked a good home instance with .zip as far as I know.
schwim@piefed.zip 4 days ago
The majority of the platform does foster more honest dialog but to be clear, there are 0-value communities on the platform as well. You can block the communities, people and instances you don’t care for and the filter system works great so a large part of what you see is completely dictated by you. The fediverse is still small enough that you can create a filter list and browse all/new without seeing anything you don’t want to see.