• abusive admins/mods
  • mods being cults of personality
  • vibe bans with incorrect rule used with no appeal process
  • automod
  • auto bans for participation in other spaces

I came here in November of last year looking for an alternative to reddit, and in that time, this space has transformed to look more like reddit than I ever expected it to become.

I don’t know what I expected, but it wasn’t just reddit all over again with a smaller userbase.

  • henfredemars@lemdro.idEnglish
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    6 months ago

    What communities are you using? I haven’t been running into these issues and I’ve been here for a couple of years.

    However, there are a few notorious instances and communities that do just that.

  • calliope@retrolemmy.com
    1·
    6 months ago

    I think the larger instances kind of end up being quite similar to Reddit. Same pithy comments, same inability to self-reflect, same weird self-assurance that they are in the majority, regardless of subject.

    It takes a lot of curation but I think it’s possible to find the social media you want on Lemmy.

  • can@sh.itjust.worksM
    1·
    6 months ago

    You and I have had very different experiences. I don’t mean to invalidate yours however.

    There’s some rogue admins and mods, sure, but I haven’t come up against them much in over two years and it’s not like I’ve been walking on eggshells.

    Where have you experienced this the most? Certain instances or mods?

    Edit: and fwiw, in my eyes it was clear from the beginning that dot world set out to be reddit on the fediverse

    And I remain relatively neutral on this. It’s their hardware, resources, and time. I didn’t have to sign up there.

  • remon@ani.social
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    6 months ago

    I never quite understand why people have these high expectations from lemmy. It’s just another social media site, why should people here be any different?

    For now the silver lining is that lemmy is still at a size where you can salvage it blocking a couple hundred people and communities.