Obligatory ‘your mileage may vary,’ but lemmy seems to be no better in any regards than reddit or similar. The top 20 posts in any community are from power users and/or mods of such community. They enforce rules on a biased, per-basis quota rather than rules as written.
Full discourse: just got a 3-day ban from news@lemmy.world because I was being ‘uncivil,’ despite being the first attacked. Another user mentioned the lack of punctuation from the OP, and I followed through with a ‘failed grammar’ joke.
Rule one of /c/news@lemmy.world is ‘be civil; if you see bait, report and move along’ (paraphrased). I wasn’t even baiting and these people threw their expired chum at me.
Literally everything after that was criticism, judgement, and personal interpretations. Everything from ‘don’t judge the illiterate,’ to, ‘why would anyone bother with your bs?’ (see how speshul that one is?) When I shot back, the smooth brains doubled down.
Ultimately lemmy as a whole is becoming more like reddit every day, and I’m just rocking on the fence deciding if it’s worth keeping.
I don’t even like .ml but at least they’re consistent.
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Complains about Lemmy
Ends by saying at least .ml is consistent
I think you’re a bit turned around. Lemmy.world isn’t all of Lemmy. That’s the entire point. If a specific instance is not moderating to your liking, you can post to other federated instances. Whichever instance has a community that the most users gravitate to will become the hub for that topic. This prevents admins and powermods from controlling the entire network, which is unlike reddit.
As for mods posting a lot in communities, from my experience that’s because some communities have low user engagement and the mods are invested in communities so are posting more.
Ultimately lemmy as a whole is becoming more like reddit every day, and I’m just rocking on the fence deciding if it’s worth keeping.
Ok?
Your opinion is not unique or new, and I will repeat what I tell everyone.
Your hateful opinions aren’t here because we are individuals hosting these servers. We do want to host vile usually racist BS. Lucky for you, you can go offline use your own money to host whatever vile hateful stuff you were banned for. Of course, we all have the choice not to federate with you.
“Lemmy” is not a single place, it’s software that anyone can use. The phrase “Lemmy as a whole” is a contradiction of terms. If you’re looking for a censorship free space, just create your own instance. If you’re looking to force your speech upon others, check out Reddit.
Definitely an unpopular and confusing opinion. Lemmy as a whole isn’t sensoring or creating rules for the entire platform. Mods make the rules for their page.
The top 20 posts in any community are from power users and/or mods of such community.
Power users and/or community mods tend to want the platform and their community to succeed, so are more motivated at pumping out content that otherwise wouldn’t be there.
- Reddit has autobans, and you can’t even open pages if you use a VPN
- You cannot mention Lemmy on Reddit
- You trolled a bit on !news@lemmy.world, the ban is definitely debatable but it’s still against the rules
I agree that it’s a slippery slope, but it’s not yet Reddit.
I’m just rocking on the fence deciding if it’s worth keeping.
There are no alternatives. For the IT crowd, Hacker News has an automatic shadowban for VPN users, and Lobsters is invite only. Lemmy/Piefed is still good IMHO.
