this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2024
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It's become much more moderated and controlled. I think reddit is actually less controlled. I'm seeing conversations about Swedish immigration that would never be allowed on Lemmy.
On the other hand, I saw that Luigi was not allowed to be mentioned in Reddit now in some subreddit.. So... Lol.
That’s correct: racism is more tolerated on Reddit than on Lemmy, and anti-capitalism is less tolerated Reddit than on Lemmy.
Every person and every platform has its biases and values, so it's not as helpful to think of moderation and control as more-or-less, so much as what is being controlled.
For example, reddit's revenue model led them to censor moderators during the API fiasco, and some of the communities on Lemmy since its early days are continuations of quarantined or banned subreddits. Meanwhile, most Lemmy instances take a stand against bigotry which would fly without a worry on reddit. This is a result of each platform's values, what they as a community (or in reddit's case, business) consider tolerable. reddit has the added constraint that they can't alienate their advertisers and other sources of income, and face increased scrutiny from mass media (news articles are usually the cause of controversial subreddits finally getting enough attention to cause them to be banned).
Change your instance. You can still use lemmy and see what you want. No need to switch to a new service.
That's the beauty of this place. Make it how you want.
I see a fair number of Reddit posts on the main page with 40k+ votes mentioning Luigi. I think that subreddit is in the minority.