Title. Alt account cause obviously.
Been on lemmy for like 2 years, at first it was okay, possibly because I started on lemm.ee (RIP), possibly the influx of new users from reddit has changed things, who knows.
But now I keep seeing all the same things happen here that happened on reddit. People abusing rules that go unenforced, mods removing posts/banning users only when they take offense, users (and even mods) fighting each other over instances like rival gangs, communities propped up by single users, all of it.
The only actual differences I’ve found are that there’s no ads, and some instances have a more gated sign-up process to deter bots/spammers. That’s it.
There are some good faith users of course, but it seems the vast majority just want to be in a safe space echo chamber and talk shit about each other. It’s like that meme from the office: corporate needs you to differentiate these images, and one is reddit and the other is reddit wearing a lemmy mask, they’re the same image.
Idk I got multiple 3 day bans on Reddit for simply upvoting content. That won’t happen here, that’s a big plus to me.
Also Lemmy is SMALL! If you want to make a
subcommunity different then it is it’s not that hard I’ve been lighting up comicstrips with non-topical content and it’s already started moving the other posters that way. The culture here isn’t set it’s not the freight train reddit culture is.As far as the other complaints I think that’s still an issue of Lemmy being small
You can absolutely get bans for upvoting stuff here.
This is constantly happening here.
lemmy.ml for sure. I haven’t experienced it elsewhere… where are you seeing it?
Just follow [email protected], there is a story about it every other week. Also accused mods will often ban people there just for participating in the the comments, so be careful.
am subbed now
most definitely not, if you go the tankie instances you will get banned for not agreeing with the narrative. everywhere else is pleasant.