Best instances with a good balance allowing free speech while avoiding disinformation/astroturfing?

Fled Reddit to join lemm.ee a few months ago. It was a glorious few months, and I hope the admins know how appreciated their work was.

I'm very sad but grateful that there was a place to go where I felt like I could speak freely, read, and share information that is being suppressed on other platforms.

I was wondering what recommendations people might have for any instances that are allowing new users, and seem to have found a good balance between avoiding disinformation/astroturfing/bad actors, without swinging too far in the opposite direction and potentially suppressing information?