Hi everyone, I’m new to Lemmy and looking to get involved. I am curious about what major differences you have experienced here vs Reddit as I am hoping this is a nice alternative.
I’ve personally experienced aggressive overreach and biased moderation on Reddit, and I was wondering if you have experienced a different environment here. If so, are there ways to get the word out about sites like this that might be viable alternatives?
More granularly/specifically, are there any topics that you might have discussed on both platforms and had a different experience? What have you seen here that has been a vast upgrade over Reddit? Thanks for any guidance!


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.