• mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    6 hours ago

    Bans and heavy moderation of content.

    I’m glad some of the reddit copy communities here like DankMemes died quickly because it was being run by the same loser mods from reddit.

    So far I’ve only been banned from I think maybe 2 communities ever. The only one I remember is one of the NCD communities because the lead mod was a dumb dumb.

    I don’t really care about complaints of specific instance users because unpopular opinions and comments deserve to be seen, otherwise you create an echo chamber.

    So long as there is no brigading, it is much healthier to see everyone’s input.

    Also I hope the r/Chodi crowd never finds lemmy lol.

  • Lunar@lemmy.ml
    124·
    12 hours ago

    everything i hoped to never see is already here and has been here since the original redditor exodus after that whole API fiasco

    the misogyny, the barely-disguised racism, the western chauvinism, the excessive hostility and pedantry, and did i mention the misogyny? holy shit there’s so much misogyny

  • comfy@lemmy.ml
    11·
    13 hours ago

    Perhaps its too late for the largest instances, but the idea of a site like this being a spectator activity, about consumption, rather than creating communities. Some smaller instances, and even some larger ones, have an actual unique atmosphere and have larger projects across the instance. When we suddenly got a flood of reddit users escaping from the third-party API fiasco and the Luigi bans, that was huge enough to dilute some of the communities with large amounts of people used to simply voting and commenting, or having a website premade for them.

  • PlantsWithinPants@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    6 hours ago

    Im already seeing what i don’t want to see from reddit on lemmy, extreme toxicity and hate fueled by politics, but from the reverse side of reddit. I’ve really just given up entirely on the concept of the fediverse, it’s not helping people become kinder either. But at least it’s not designed that way, i think people are used to what social media has been that they bring it over here. I think a lot of the nice people have been overwhelmed on lemmy by a lot of angry people. I don’t know. The fediverse feels like a failed experiment but at the same time. I would think eventually people will stop bringing the mentalities theyve had for a long time on the internet here, but it will take time.

    Maybe someday ill have a permanent account on a fediverse platform.

  • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
    33·
    18 hours ago

    Shadow bans.

    My wife tried to post a bunch on art related communities only to have her account banned without us knowing. She does oil paintings and other such art pieces. You had to have a history before you could post…which no one was willing to tell her. So her account got shadow banned. She gave up after a while on reddit. I dont blame her.

    I hope we never get so petty.

    • Zahille7@lemmy.world
      5·
      14 hours ago

      On top of that, bullshit “reputation” rules should never exist here.

      When I first made my reddit account years ago, I remember being so confused when I couldn’t post more than one comment every 10 minutes (absolute bullshit arbitrary restriction), and when I tried to join a community with “too low karma.” “Oops, you can’t do that cause you’re an unpopular nobody and we don’t want you here… Yet.”

      What’s the actual point of holding someone back from joining your online community if they don’t have enough “points” on their comments or posts? It’s just such bullshit imo, and restricts everything an online forum should be.

      • comfy@lemmy.ml
        41·
        13 hours ago

        What’s the actual point of holding someone back from joining your online community if they don’t have enough “points” on their comments or posts?

        It is a legitimate anti-abuse tactic. Like you’ve mentioned, there are obvious flaws, but it does help prevent brigadiers, advertisers and other bad actors from easily spinning up throwaways to harass or manipulate a community.

        Another way to do this could be account age testing, but this can be defeated by pre-registering empty accounts.

        • MerryJaneDoe@piefed.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 hours ago

          It’s a legitimate CONFUSING anti-abuse tactic.

          How is a normal person, who’s never used reddit in the past, supposed to even know how to get karma? Or how the lack of karma is impacting their UX?

          The only way is to game the system, get into a sub that allows shitposts and exists for the sole reason of boosting karma. Which immediately teaches the new person to game the system. Counter-intuitive and counter-productive.

          I think it’s definitely an effective way to keep new users from spamming.

          It chases away new users (or, at the very least, keeps them from active participation). Because of this system, a new Reddit user is more likely to be a doom-scroller with zero participation. And that’s what Reddit wants. Reddit doesn’t need another shitposter. Reddit doesn’t lack for quality content, since it aggregates the bulk of its content from other sites via powerusers. So fuck it if new people participate, as long as they see the advertising sponsors, Reddit is happy.