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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.

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[–] Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lemmy is way better then Reddit.

The Reddit mods are crazy oppressive

[–] Crowfiend@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I've seen oppressive modding here as well, and maybe it's because lemmy is smaller so it's easier to see, or maybe it's just confirmation bias, but I've seen more bad faith modding here than on reddit, which to be fair I don't go to anymore.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Like mod power trips havent happened here...

There's an entire community on our db0 related to mod/admin power tripping on lemmy. We are not way better. Just more community oriented, "no big money" involved place. Everything else comes with how humans act around other humans.

[–] Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

In my personal experience I haven’t had one comment to get removed on lemmy (this is my fourth account I joined a couple years ago)

But on reddit it happens all the time