Reddit

It's gotten worse over there.

Nice thing about the Fediverse is how difficult it is to really control, due to its decentralized nature. It's unquestionable that some bad actors will acquire positions of power here, that's just inevitable. It's not an internet thing, it's a life thing. Corruption.

But here anyone's actual ability to dominate any particular subject matter is slashed down, just by the ease of creating nearly identically named duplicate communities.

It's still possible, and will occasionally happen, but its just harder here.

I think that the lemmy/kbin fediverse communities are honestly more of a bubble than Reddit is. To some extent Reddit has gone mainstream (critical mass) and so yes you get some bubbles from moderation but the averages for up/down votes probably more accurately (than fediverse anyway) reflect societies opinions. fediverse suffers from bubbles in a different way where it hasn’t reached critical mass and from what I can tell, marginalized groups have flocked to the fediverse more quickly than most and thus have outsized representation her. And that is reflected in the posts that make the front page on instances. At least on kbin judging from the posts that make front page one might assume half of the people out there are autistic, adhd, lgbtq+, Star Trek fans. Unless my understanding of current demographics is way off, those groups make up a much smaller sample of the overall population. Not saying this is a problem but from someone that doesn’t really fall into any marginalized groups, the opinions upvoted and popular on this site often do not align with what the general population (at least in the USA) tends to think and, perhaps unfortunately, also vote for.

I know it will happen here, I hope it doesn't. I paid for multiple premium accounts, had millions of fake internet points, and was/am well regarded in most communities. The final straw was when I posted a factual statement, with evidentiary links, that disagreed with a mod. Instant permaban and mute. I am at least in the top 1% of experts in this field, volunteering my time and energy to help other people for what? To have to lie when someone stupid doesn't understand? Nope. Cancelled all my accounts, edited most of my extensive post history to remove any helpful information, and left a complaint form in the never checked reddit corporate account email. My small protest will do absolutely nothing. But I can't keep posting anything there, I'm just done with it.

I made a post to a movie sub reddit about how Deckard had to be a replicant because he had a child with one, the mod deleted my post and banned me from the sub and said it was lukewarm bullshit, and when I told him to go fuck himself for being rude my entire account was banned from reddit as a whole.

I was banned from /r/food for pointing out that someone’s “homemade” breakfast consisted of a toaster waffle and a frozen hash brown.

The moderator who banned me went through my post history, combing it for things they disapproved of, and made sure to highlight various deficiencies of my character in their ban explanation.

I got sitewide banned for disagreeing with a mod on r/thatsinsane. There was a video of a guy drinking salad dressing from the spoon of the buffet. I made the comment that the guy should be banned. We'll the automod thought that was promoting hate speech or violence. The fuck? Somebody posted a disgusting video and the guy shouldn't be punished that's in the video?

Before that I was muted on r/cordcutters for disagreeing with a mod. Reddit was awesome maybe 5/yrs ago. But now it's just unemployed people sitting in their parents basement "working". MySpace went down because of Facebook. I think we can do the same thing here.

I stopped engaging on the site after the API changes. I made a decent amount of OC on various subreddits. I believe a lot of people did the same. Now the front page is litttered with only fans ads and celebrity gossip.

I still lurk on my subscribed subreddits on the PC with the right plugins to make Reddit bearable.

A wake-up call was when someone on a dedicated subreddit said that left side politics have never hurt anyone, and I told them they would be stoked to hear about the Soviet or Venezuela, and received a permanent ban for it. Reddit is now a propaganda tool with users engaging in hyper normalisation the narrative. Anyone questioning the emperors new clothes is expelled.

The great thing about Lemmy is that you can make your own instance with your own moderation policies if you don't like how things are done elsewhere.

I got banned from r/worldnews for being a "covidiot", my only ever ban on Reddit in 14 years. I wasn't talking about conspiracies, I wasn't claiming that masks, vaccines or lockdowns weren't effective or anything else like that. I just had a different point of view of the pandemic from the mainstream that I was trying to debate in good faith.

The mod that banned me wouldn't admit it but they simply wanted an echo chamber. Some mods are nothing but volunteers that pay themselves in powertrips. Fuck them.

i mod 2 communities, if I ever start dishing out bans for stupid shit, pls someone shoot me

Huh. I got permanently banned for saying what I would do to Donald Trump - who I blamed for major medical staffing shortages - if he were in the Emergency waiting room with me, where I had been waiting all day for abdominal pain.

I'm not sure I got any bans that weren't for posting in an unapproved sub.

What's important about lemmy is that it's an iteration on a specific type of social media, just like mastodon is an iteration. They're an attempt to improve some flaws and I think it's a move in the right direction, but they won't be the end. I agree moderation is going to be a petty shit show, and I'm not sure defederation is enough to fix that. We'll see.

Someone should create an alternative for this sub (on lemm.ee, etc.) so we don't have that problem with Reddit discussion on Lemmy.

Lemmy does this, too. Especially happens if you're not pro-Palestinian.