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No offense: Lemmy is over modded and filled with brigading tankies, anarchists, libs, etc. The mods cant tolerate dissent and its frustrating to watch. It just makes an even smaller more dense echo chamber than reddit. Not to mention this FAF drama over nothing. The main plus side is that people aren't rabidly using LLM's to write posts, which is why I started an account here.
As well, Ghislaine Maxwell isn't a major sub mod here and Lemmy isn't being used for Hasbara by Israel, for now.
Oh and the lack of more hobby-oriented communities is a major short-coming, and probably why Reddit still maintains a large userbase. Self-hosted and the radio instance are great examples, and more communities around those topics can bring folks over here.
I haven't felt any over-moderation here
It sounds like you might want to block lemmy.ml or something
I feel like the way activitypub works lends itself to people forgetting that each instance is technically its own entire "Reddit", with their own admin team, who will of course have their own views, biases, and moderation policies.
Some will be completely over moderated, some won't have any moderation at all. Some will be full of tankies, some might be hard right.
The difference between here and Reddit is that you have to actively filter unwanted stuff out - there's no algorithm doing it for you. Perhaps that's what some people find unpleasant about here?
If the community I want to participate is on an instance I don't like or disagree with their instance-wide rules, what can I do?
Since you realistically aren't going to get a community to change instances just because you don't like the instance its on, you really only have two options...
If you're determined to be on this community specifically, then you're just going to have to tolerate the instance's rules.
Otherwise, you can block that instance and try to look for a similar community in another instance. The double-edged sword of decentralisation is that you tend to get multiple similar communities in different places.
Oh it's def a thing.
Besides lemmy.zip (i havent used it yet), I've noticed all of the most populated english-lang instances do this. I'd cite examples but I don't feel like it.
Yeah... that might have something to do with it being "filled" with "brigading" tankies and anarchists.
Hobby communities need a community to survive. This is always the same argument against Lemmy. Or most Reddit alternatives. "I'm not going there. Not enough users." It's a self fulfilling prophecy.
People forget Reddit was like that for the longest time, just tech and Le bacon narwhals at midnight.
IIRC the hobby subs that got big all somehow got some k8nd of vitality, either reaching /r/all or some influencer or content creator promote it
So someone need to make the comms here, hold the fort alone, then somehow market it to get more audience or get it viral
We should make an AI video about the best posts from !fuck_ai@lemmy.world
IIRC the hobby subs that got big all somehow got some k8nd of vitality, either reaching /r/all or some influencer or content creator promote it
So someone need to make the comms here, hold the fort alone, then somehow market it to get more audience or get it viral
if you are going to tankie triads, you might see that. LEMMY isnt overmoderated unless you go into the tankie instances. Reddit is way more oppressive due to some mods/admins being very aggressive with filtering, plus reddits own filters, and AI moderation which looks at the technical aspects of your computer or account to ban people.
world has the same issue and isnt tankie. the top 5 largest instances are based on ideology besides zip and the canadian and german ones