On Reddit, you get banned for sane things like wishing death upon dictators (Putler, f.e.) and riling people up to fight back against ICE. Here, you don’t, yet.

oh no you joined ml

as far as i can remember they are openly Marxist Leninist when you sign up which mean you are as well? in which case enjoy your commie bubble

if not, sign up somewhere, anywhere else where people don’t live in a fantasy universe

Reddit has niches within niches within niches. There’s a sub for dogs, but also a sub for labradors. If you want to get even more specific, there are subs for chocolate, black, and yellow labs, and all of them are lively and active. I’ve run across legitimately interesting subreddits just by misspelling another subreddit name. Reddit’s user base is also very diverse, with more than just tankies and Linux nerds. But reddit is aggressively banking on social media addiction with their constant reminders to crosspost and weird mobile-game-looking ‘achievements’.

Lemmy’s constant politicking is exhausting, but the lack of an Algorithm is refreshing. I would, however, like a better way to find communities or posts. Surely there’s a an alternative to the content black hole that Lemmy can be vs the attention sucking time vampire that main stream social media can be.

Lemmy is a bunch of federated instances (servers / websites) so mod overreach and bias are less dangerous than on Reddit. There was one guy who created a lemmy UI (called tesseract) that would secretly block stuff / people he didn’t like, but he got kicked out pretty fast.

There is nothing inherent about Lemmy which prevents mod abuse similar to Reddit. The moderation structure was copied over almost exactly. The only real difference is that, since karma isn’t public on Lemmy, communities can’t use it as a filter for users; federation/defederation takes on that role instead.

One thing to keep in mind is that each instance has a highly varied user base which don’t always mesh well together. You can have similarly named communities on different instances with highly different social norms and moderation styles. Since those communities have different admins, they can have wildly different standards on what is acceptable moderation policy.

Reddit is a corporate shithole where the users are the product being sold to AI corponazis.

Lemmy is freedom. Don’t like how an instance is run? Pick any other.

The biggest difference for me is engagement. On reddit, once a post is popular and more than 2 hours old, there’s no point in commenting because no one will see your comment. Here you can have meaningful interactions even if a post is several hours old. This encourages me to comment and engage in conversations more.

As others have said this is a much smaller place and I guess everyone had it’s own experience, but in the end users (including moderators) are humans, and you will find here the same issues you found on reddit except one:

• if you think the rules are wrong you can change instance, while for reddit, well you have to leave reddit as a whole.

I got banned for comparing israel to the Nazis.

the reddit filters for the whole site overreach, because they use AI moderation now. also thier AI detection of botting is next level. the mass bannings were all done by thier AI, thats why they never lift bans, because theres too many false positives they arnt going to deal with.

It’s better than reddit, but less active.

Community is kind of toxic here as well, but more people are nice.

You still get randomly banned by some mod powertripping.

Overall, it’s much less of a junk medium which is perfect for me.

Welcome! Lemmy is so much better that it’s not even the same league. The lack of algorithm by itself is amazing.

I highly recommend starting your subscriptions from scratch. I was following all the drama subs on Reddit, and more times than not, I walked away stressed and raged.

On Lemmy, I joined interest and conversation communities, and of course you’ll run into trolls and assholes occasionally, they are everywhere and can’t be avoided entirely, but overall, I think people are much more accepting and willing to have a discussion rather than yell at each other all the time.

Unless of course you support AI or Fascism. You probably won’t have a great time here.

Lemmy: violent revolution

Reddit: aita for family stuff

Mutually shared:

• People upvote things that make them feel good, downvote things that make them feel bad.
• People getting in the way of a hate train are plastered.