fediverse soon

yeah, that's what i've read. They're protecting their people, and that's an admirable thing. Wonder where cross instances admin tools are on the roadmap.

In any case our equivalent federated communities are coming up to strength now and we're starting to get decent levels of interactions without them.

they're only 4 admins and don't really have the capability to moderate that well right now

We know, they continually remind us.

What happened with Beehaw?

I don’t get why they don’t appoint a ton of community moderators. Lemmy allows admins to appoint community mods, and parent mods can create child mods that they control.

Is there some sort of specific feature they need that is currently missing? If so, what?

Or do the admins just not want to delegate / relinquish power to others in the community?

There's a way to fix that...

Hey! There's no way for an individual to defederate without running their own instance. I think my first comment was asking how I could remove beehaw

There are multiple types of people coming from Reddit. I'm here looking for more critical discussion. Beehaw gives me cult vibes.

I mean, 1/3 of all of my google searches for a give topic come from a reddit post. There were as useful as stack exchange for most technical questions.

The management and problems are nothing but the millions of curated answered questions are pretty damn useful.

I told him to fuck himself plenty and never even got aknowlaged

It's often enough to say a bad word about russians and you get permabanned.

Pixelfed is viable option too, i would love to see your art there!

I came here to share art too, cuz I don't really wanna share my art and out the effort if Reddit is just gunna implode and become worse...

Said that I would murder andrew tate is given the opportunity and apparently that counts as a credible threat of violence

I got banned once for telling an absolute cunt that she was one in "am I the asshole."

They ban people very selectively and its always ideologically motivated. There was a period of time where you would get a 3-day ban for just upvoting the wrong posts. So you could lurk and still get banned for some reason. That happened to me multiple times before I decided to delete my account.

It's pretty easy, i got banned from a couple of subs for being left-wing (apparently calling out brigading from far-right subs was against the rules).

But i got a sitewide ban because I used an alt to ban evade (can't remember the exact post, but somebody was asking for advise wrt to COVID in a legal sub (I was originally banned for for encouraging a user to get funny but illegal payback on their neighbors), and it felt urgent enough that I was fine getting banned.).

Once you get a siteban, trolls will flag report all your posts even on subs your not banned from, or at least whenever I brought up that r/UKpolitics is modded by a literal fascist, I'd get a new site ban for "ban evasion", to the point where pretty much any encounter with a far right troll or YIMBY would get me a ban.

The admins also seem to work very closely with certain moderators, as was shown when they leaked a trans employees information to TERFisland subs.

So while powermods can't get you a sitewide ban, some have the ear of the admins who can keep an eye on you until you break a sitewide rule.

And on a site which has alt-right subs, it's hard to at the very least walk right up to the line on the rules wrt treating all commenters like humans.

A popular french redditor who had a fun passion fir road signage got banned from reddit to state in a right-wing reddit (/r/europe) about the riots in France, that sometimes you only get progress through violence. He was banned for promoting violence.

Commenting "GUILLOTINE!" at some political news was likely considered promoting violence enough so that the /r/france mods got instructions from reddit mods.

I feel like this happened because of the Jan 6th coup attempt in Washington. I totally understand their position, but it is a bit tiring that Americans believe that their own political mindset of the moment is universal. France has far more legal restrictions on free speech yet it feels like American media censor themselves much more.

At that point, just block those servers/communities from your view and continue about your day

But what if those servers/instances are the ones which has quality communities in it and what if the users and owners of those communities refuse to migrate to new server/instance? Wouldn't that be the same case of reddit where the user base is split and the new migrated server/instance needs building again?

ELI5 on thedonald please

That's not really what happened here. It was 1 guy who made a community. That 1 guy was banned and his community was deleted for breaking the rules (specifically rule 2, no bigotry). Just before he got banned, people on other instances were freaking out like we just had the entire population of /r/the_donald join up here when it was 1 troll who broke our rules.

This is true with all forms of social media. I remember when Twitter was starting out, and one of the main complaints was "Everyone was sharing pictures of what they ate for lunch", and my thought was "Don't follow those people". Reddit has a lot of crappy areas that won't be missed. There are a lot of dumb admins that only use the site to have a power trip. But beyond that, there was a lot of GOOD admins, and GOOD subreddits that were filled with interesting discussions and nice cultures.

This is why I am excited about the Fediverse. There will be servers run by meglomaniacs and trolls. There will be servers and communities filled with racist, misogynistic assholes. But you don't have to go to those. They can be blocked at the community and server levels.

I don't think it will be a problem as we get more and more people here. Having a bigger user base will allow for a better experience for everyone in that more exposure will make it easier for more tools to be developed. More people means more communities, and finding ones that cover more niche topics, which will make the platform more useful.

What's your point of reference? If you're talking about how Reddit was 2 years ago, sure, but if you're talking like pre-2016 I don't agree.

Reddit is less pedantic, less skeptical, and more conformist then it use to be.

I find it silly that people on reddit consider themselves "non-normal" and "geeky". I don't think you're that special.

I completely disagree 🤣 I absolutely am that special 🥰

The first part of your post is really confusing. Why would you talk like you're using English from 1930s? Is English your second language?

That's the exact kind of nonsense I can't stand. People are SO scared of the prospect of a counter opinion we lose the ability to actually have discussions.

I got a 7 day site wide ban for saying "you can still kill yourself" in a discussion on Canada new assisted sucide policies. It wasn't a threat, it wasn't bullying, it was a relevant point of discussion.

That's the thing. A faceless corporation doesn't have any accountability.

There are many of us with similar stories. No genuine means of appeal, and the most over-zealous and ridiculous interpretation of the rules leading to a site-wide, permanent ban.

I got banned for making a joke on a comedy sub. Literally that. Someone made a comment that they and their wife had been the only people in the theater for the premiere of Bert Kreischer's 'The Machine', and that they had fun and enjoyed it.

I replied that we all knew that was a lie, that nobody had any fun and that his entire relationship was a farce: just grinding out the next 40 years pretending to enjoy mediocre comedies that nobody else bothered to show up for.

Something to that effect anyway. Well, I guess not sharing the same sense of humour was grounds enough to delete 10 years worth of tech reviews, Linux how-to guides and assorted other long-form bullshit. I'm much more careful about where I host my content these days.

Whats a "layby"?

I looked up the official definition, but I was wondering if you're using that word in an urban definition sort of way?

When they first started joining Reddit, I thought of them as FaceBookers fleeing their parents and grandparents

The real first wave were Digg refugees, but there's some truth to that. Millennials made heavy use of Facebook but largely abandoned the platform when their parents showed up. The only people I know who are still using Facebook are my boomer-aged parents and their friends.

I don't know the full story but a lot of Lemmy devs/early adapters were Marxist-Leninists who kind of got drowned out by the more liberal Reddit users. I was a (very) passive lurker for a while so I only know a little bit of the story, namely that Lemmy used to be a lot further left. Someone who has been more engaged back then would be more helpful than I.

I think too but still something is brewing.

They will. Eventually. If Lemmy gets public eye big money always wins.

Facebook could just do his own instance and poison other instances with it.