I found Lemmy thanks to a guy on reddit wich answered to my comment. I said that we leftists generally lacked a place where we could express some opinions without te fear of being banned. infact Reddit moderation (both admins and mods) suck and doing their “job” and there are instances of people being banned just for saying something completely normal or just some bugs. I am still active on Reddit but would like to make the Lemmy community grow so mabye it can become and actual alternative.
Sorry for any disturb, bye :3
P.S.
Ban evasion control is stupid and I fucking hate permabans, since they are so common for the minimal stuff.
Ever since Apollo shut the doors I’ve not had a user there. I still keep tabs on a few communities that don’t really have a presence here, but only lurking, no participation.
banned.
I’m totally banned so here we are.
reddit moment
We also have bans here. And they’re also rather arbitrary. Just never defend europeoids (they are guilty by default, no matter what happened) and always defend minorities of any kind (they are always right in their rightful rights). Simple? Not quite. You will still be banned from time to time even from the communities you never heard about(local moderators love that).
But overall, it is much nicer here. Moderators are fewer and lazier, and some people can sometimes even read your arguments before calling you a racist or something.
Yeah yeah i know there are bans here, moderation is still important. Yeah people are much nicer here but im like, for some reason, even more scared people here will judge me and insult me then on reddit idk why
Just be yourself and after a few bans you’ll see how things go here. Judging and insulting? While we have much easier rules about wording (you can write “fuck” here freely), insulting is much rarer than at Reddit. People are more content and calm when they are not banned every few days:)
Ty :)
just avoid purely political communities.
I’m not banned, but I’m here because Reddit essentially in active decay. It’s old. All the community names are taken. Some taken years ago. The site is too big to be effectively maintained by admins, leaving many communities badly-run, half-abandoned and being swamped by bots, trolls and whatever else. You can’t grow anything there.
You can on the Fediverse. Community discoverability is by far much better on here, and the federated structure of it means that no-one can camp on communities to stop others from making it. You can just be replaced by someone else if you run it poorly.
Indeed
naaah reddit works fine and many well modded communities are thriving
lemmy on the other hand is slowly losing users
i use old.reddit.com and RedReader. no ads, all free
most of its bots anyways, outside of niche communties, most of the post are more less talking about trump, or trump adjacent in some form another, the only problem with that you are more likely to get astroturfed there.
I did use to be a Reddit user. Now I’m a bot, according to the admins of ttrpg.network.
i see bad moderation is not exclusive to reddit.
Yep. It’s ultimately a human thing, people make mistakes and most are unwilling to admit it. For more choice examples, check out [email protected].
Cool
Not banned. I just like the idea of the fediverse. And also to have more “real people” in the comments.
Yeah the fediverse Is a cool idea
Im not banned either btw
Reddit is leftwing lemmy us hard left. Anyone right of moderate are the ones that get banned here for no reason. Any platform that doesn’t allow true actual free speech of all political perspectives is doomed to die as an irrelevant echo chamber.
I use both for different reasons, different communities
same
My account appears to have been blocked instantly from the public eye just because I intermittently shared in /r/Milwaukee a weekly board game group that I run, so, yeah, this is a nicer place.
r/(any locations) seems to have been taken over by tankies of those subs, or conservatives. i even avoid mines when i was on reddit.
Self promotion?!? REEEEEE
It’s strictly a free event for the public! Otherwise, I’d be right there with you, haha.
Lemmy is a federated clone of Reddit, and Reddit has more users, so most likely, everyone here has either rejected Reddit, or been banned by Reddit, or they are using both platforms at once to reach a bigger audience.
I am here because I was very dissatisfied with Reddit’s administration and moderation and with the way they screwed app devs.
I’m concerned that Lemmy uses the same basic moderation techniques as Reddit, and so it could fall into the same ruin as Reddit. But for now, the moderators I’ve interacted with here have been straight up legit good people. So I stick around.
If nothing else, Lemmy moderation doesn’t have the corporate input that Reddit has, and currently Lemmy moderators seem to be more likely to perma-ban a real person for being a bot than to let malicious bots exist. Plus it’s pretty hard to get banned for “ban-evasion” on Lemmy unless you’re an obvious troll.
thier recent filters and AI moderation makes it hard to say what you want on there.
me too, i hope it doesnt become like the same thing it swore to be an alternative too
I opened my first account in 2012 and I used it for the rest of the decade, then reddit went to shit and I went through another three accounts only lasting several months each for I gave up. Sometimes I still want to go back but everything I see suggests that would be a mistake.
Bot infestation at Reddit is out of control, with no real way to fix it. Many Mods are high on “authority” and ban for incredibly asinine reasons, then make you susceptible to the dreaded (not so much) “Ban Evasion.” Oh man, F off. Way too many rules now. Jumped the Shark long ago.
Spez wants AI to scrape all the info in exchance for money.
Many Mods are high on “authority” and ban for incredibly asinine reasons
The recent drama around r/art exemplifies this.
I gradually weaned off my Reddit usage and fully stopped by 5 months after I opened my Lemmy account.
There are echo chambers, there are ideologues, and there are jerks, compulsive contrarians and trolls, but I really do loving having more indepth conversations with people on Lemmy, even with whom I disagree.
yeah on lemmy people are much more serious and credible, you can have actual conversations
R-word emigrant, checking in.
lmao
My rigga
Reddards
I am, but there’s such a strong focus on American news and politics that I still jump back to Reddit a lot though
well yeah idk why but american news and stuff always prevale everywhere unless you go into region specific communities, of wich there arent many here
