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I started using reddit in 2011. Was nuts to see the changes it underwent. A lot of them bad.
Since leaving reddit during that protest, been more than happy to call Lemmy home. Especially when I go back to browse reddit occasionally and see how incredibly toxic and negative it is all the time. I don't know if I was blind to it before or if it got worse. Every comment thread is awful. They focus on the negative of everything and are just bitter and angry.
Place sucks ass.
I'd you disagree with the wrong mod or say something "offensive" banned. They look at your appeal and nothing changes.
At this point it's just adult children "working" in their parents basement not making any money.
Bro if you comment in a subreddit the mods don't like you're instantly banned, even if ironic. Mods over there are on a power trip and the lack of a modlog means zero accountability.
Even with a modlog, the mods are clearly removing comments. I can't tell you how many times I'll click on a link that reads anywhere from 10-25 "more comments in this thread," only for it to tell me there are no more comments when I click to load them.
I don't know how bans work over here, but I have seen lemmings complain that they got banned temporarily, but never got any notifications of the ban.
It's clearly better than what happened to Reddit, but there still seem to be some bad faith actors about.
Well yeah they're going to exist everywhere. But with Lemmy you have some accountability. On reddit you have none.
As for bans with no notifications, that's not on the mods. That is on the developers of Lemmy and why so many people are frustrated with them. They're ignoring admins, have no real timeline on feature development, and aren't focusing on major issues that have been reported. The Lemmy Devs keep dragging their feet and if they're not careful it could end up with someone making a lemmy competitor that still works with Lemmy. I know I'd go straight for it as a mod and as a user.
I used to go to the The Last of Us subreddit to just vent about the horrible writing in the second part of the game. Jesus, that was s cult. People had to create s second subreddit just to criticize the game. Now, the original subreddit calls names and bans anyone mentioning "the other" subreddit.
Now, I'm from Mexico. The subreddit /r/Mexico is the equivalent to /r/Conservative to the USA. But named after my country, people goes there without knowing this, it's so damn alienating.
I'm one of the mods of a few subs even though I'm no longer active. I hopped on yesterday and had a chat with the remaining mods of a couple of subs. They've been SO busy moderating assholes, propagandists, aggressive conspiracy theorists, and spam bots. They're suspending and banning accounts every day or two when it used to be an account or two every month. These are all small to medium sized, niche subs dedicated to helping people and sharing various ideas and people are trolling and harassing users like they've never seen before.
I checked out some of the subs's contents and in short order found I let myself get sucked into trying to educate an anti-masker in a sub that really shouldn't attract that type. It went how you'd expect, and it made me realize I haven't had a single interaction like that on Lemmy. It's nicer here.
it's full of bots who uses AI to spread toxicity. And if you are genuine and report that, you're going to be permabanned. The site is going down, fast
same. reddit is populated with users who's comments are generally indistinguishable from those of a 12-15 year old.