I left Reddit because I couldn't access it through the API anymore. The people weren't a problem in the subs I followed. It was the ads.
Yeah, smaller subs are fine by virtue of being smaller--fewer political/corporate actors, better moderation, more visibility for comments regardless of votes....
I think the big problem with the API loss was moderation became even more difficult, leading to thoughtless (bad) moderation.
Another example: getting in the way of the hate train.
I'm asking a question about AI in UE6 and getting downvoted for it. Just asking questions and having a discussion and trying to understand.
Hello "sort by new comments" people!
Just had an example of how lemmy is basically the same as reddit:
Retrospective voting.
That's when you make a comment, and it gets a definite reaction, but then, as the discussion continues, your initial comment gets the OPPOSITE reaction (that is it goes from receiving upvotes to receiving downvotes).
That is to say, people read the entire thread, then vote on who they think "won" by upvoting/downvoting EVERY comment in the thread.
Yes, that's unfortunately true. I was hoping that people with the integrity and intelligence to leave reddit would be overall superior in various ways, but that hasn't been my experience.
I was hoping/thinking there would be more people like Luis Rossmann here, but when you look at the front page, it's just as full of low-quality content (memes, screenshots of social media) as Reddit. And I've experienced the same unintelligent behaviors (votes, comments, etc.) here as on reddit.
It makes me wonder where all the intelligent people are. Are they really this rare? They can't have abandoned the internet altogether, could they?
Are the moderators on Lemmy a bunch of A**holes like they are on Reddit?
'lemmy' is one of a series of platforms.. each platform is run by many individual server operators. moderation is spread over this entire area to allow users the ability to choose the level of moderation they want.
are there shitty mods in existence anywhere? yep. everywhere? nope.
so, whatthefuckareyoutalkinabout
I think the difference is that reddit has more social network lock in, which allows mods to be bigger assholes. People will tolerate asshole subs if the sub is big enough.
Second issue is subs are more likely to BECOME assholes on very large subs because it's a lot of work herding kittens.
Third issue is mods are ALREADY likely to be assholes because modding large subs is very much not fun and an insecure ego is a much greater motivator than secure altruism.
https://sh.itjust.works/c/watchredditdie
Watch Reddit die. Pray for Reddit to die. Help Reddit die.
Will add more rules as needed.
If you're concerned that your post might be astroturfed/brigaded by pro-reddit individuals, give us mods a heads up beforehand, and we'll try to monitor the thread.