it used to be a quite place ...

Was it badly aministered or it has been done on purpose so that people think lemmy is not reliable ?

I successfully installed it following this instructions https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/install_docker.html and using this repo https://github.com/zxk7516/lemmy

I guess that's the idea: All = Channels from all federated instances Subscribed = Channels you subscribed to (can be from any instance) Local = Channels from your instance