As much as Reddit sux because of the company's policies or mod problems etc., Lemmy is equally as bad.
Shadow banning is rampant on both platforms for instance. The biggest problem is that the people in charge of subs, or the instances, are incapable of governing -maybe not the best word- and don't understand words. It's a complete shit show everywhere.
Where have all the edgy and factual comments gone? Victims to mod bias and their political leanings. In some instances, they don't understand what they are reading, or don't like it, and ban everyone and remove posts like they are getting paid for bigger numbers.
Wasn't Lemmy supposed to solve this problem?
That's the thing, you have to frequent particular threads to notice, but for your own posts, you can see the mod reasoning, if they are given. Most of the time there is no reason given, but every now and then there's a one word response that is clearly them not understanding words or pushing their own political ideas. And by doing that they've created echo chambers for entire subs. It's disgusting.
In Reddit at least there is a big notice posted in the comment if they are removed. In Lemmy, they just prune everything so it looks like everyone agrees with the mod.
That's not really shadowbanning, but I get your point. That said, at least the moderation actions in Lemmy are public.
It's more like content steering, yes. But from the perspective of someone that frequents a thread, it's shadowy. All the content vanishes remembering the user names that commented, so I can look up what was removed, is just not practical.
It's really bizarre and sadly dystopian.
People that get off having mod powers or people that want to push a particular message... 😕