Not enough jeans. :(
Real answer: there's been an uptick in the amount of content lately, which is great. I've also unfortunately noticed an uptick in belligerent comments, which often detracts from the conversations taking place.
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2024
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I got banned from the Canada community and according to the mod log, it was for homophobia and bigotry.
That really rubs me the wrong way because I’ve never ever posted anything like that. I’ve been the subject of homophobic and bigotry based bullying my whole life and the only comment I posted on that topic there was an account of my first hand experience of being catfished on Grindr and then outed as bi on the towns facebook page and subjected to ridicule and harassment.
I mean the nice thing about Lemmy is you can always create your own community, and if that's not enough, your own instance.
It removes a bad mods ability to completely dominate, because there's always an escape hatch for folks who are just done with their shit.
I mean the nice thing about Lemmy is you can always create your own community
You can do that on most platforms. It isn't worth the effort unless you can pull users into your new community. That's hard.
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True, but when it’s a main community that pertains to your interests, it’s crappy to be banned from it for fictional reasons. Would be the same on any other social media site I guess. I find people here are more militant in their beliefs.
Yeah. Lemmy's biggest strength (decentralization) has also shown to be one of it's biggest flaws when micro-managing admins/mods turn their instance into their own personal fiefdom, inflicting their "justice" broadly and without discernment. I've been banned more here in under 2 years than on reddit for over 13, almost exclusively for voting "wrong" according to what feedback I can find, which is a a seriously treacherous practice in communities like these. I have no real sense of loss over it, but I do worry the Lemmy-verse will end up with tons of siloed off instances instead of an interconnected community if it goes on unadressed.
Things I have been permanently banned for:
- Saying dragons aren't real
- Referencing The Bee Movie
- Pointing out Kamala Harris was not the president
- Upvoting a comment
Admins and moderators of all stripes: you should be handing out three-day bans like candy. You can give people a month-long fuck-off time-out, and in the future, they will think twice. Even if it takes a few whacks. But all a one-step permanent ban does is chase people to new accounts. That's why outright trolls do it - it's not hard, and you don't seem great at catching them. The experience for people who are merely wrong has to be better than for people who are actively malicious, or you will cease to see any difference between their behavior.
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People here have gotten progressively meaner and I am seeing more and more AI slop. Also the quality of memes have fallen off a fucking cliff in all meme communities.
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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.
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.
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Lemmy has a bit more active users which is great. However, I have also noticed that Lemmy has gotten similar things as Reddit these days. Different opinions are not welcome, quick/ angry comments (politic community though)
However, Lemmy now has a decent app(s) such as Voyager. I also love that Lemmy does not restrict/ block users from using swear words (at least the instance I’m on does not).
Though in all honesty, I mostly use an RSS-feed such as Reeder and InoReader.
Different opinions are not welcome, quick/ angry comments
I feel like Lemmy is consistently hostile to different opinions. It's a real disappointment.
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- Less buggy
- Instance blocking
Just got banned from !linuxsucks, got a feeling that's nothing uncommon though, power tripping mod situation
Lol I didn’t even know this community existed. To be fair their description even states that moderation is heavy handed.
Edit: Pretty sure that’s a troll community or something? Every single post there is kinda crap and is being downvoted.
It's run by and for an absolute crank.
That guy is Poe's law, embodied. Absolutely everyone thinks it's a joke... at first.
Yeah, unfortunately it is, ended up blocking it now because if I can't comment with my own experience with Linux when I relate to a meme. (even if the "meme" is followed by half-truths) Then its just a guy ranting about how Linux sucks and power tripping when someone comments.
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