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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2026
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Great that you bring it up. I just joined Lemmy because I thought it would be less polarized and normalizing of violence than reddit. If this is indeed as bad as you say, I will look elsewhere.
The point of Lemmy is that here you can drop one instance because of its rules and join another instance without having to lose your communities
OP was banned by one instance and telling us about it from another instance connected to basically the same people. Single instances are powerless, they can't silence you effectively here.
Hmm. That is interesting. So mods are essentially far less powerful on Lemmy?
Yes, especially since you can have multiple copies of the same community on different instances. If someone doesn’t like how I run !nwsl@lemmy.world , there’s nothing I can do to stop them from creating an NWSL community on sh.itjust.works or sopuli.xyz or one of a million other instances and running it however they want. The fediverse is designed so that there is no central authority that can stop you from outputting whatever you want; there are only tools to prevent that output from reaching a given user, community or instance.
I'm not sure if "mods" are the ones managing communities, while instances are managed by "admins" or similar.
On reddit, sub mods can ban you from their sub, and reddit itself is the single instance with its own guidelines which can get you banned from the whole platform, with the possibility that in the future we'll need identification to login, so creating multiple accounts might even become something of the past
Lemmy is a protocol, every instance should be seen as its own small reddit, which can behave like reddit, however all these reddits are connected together so even if one provider manages to ban you and your multiple accounts on that instance, it has no legal responsibility on your activity on other instances. There is no central Lemmy authority that could be legally compelled by the laws of one country to have specific moderation policies.
If somebody's behaviour is terrible, like idk fascist propaganda, they will be banned by every instance, except those with inactive moderation or fascist admin/moderators. In this case, other instances can (topically collectively) decide to sever the federation to those instances. Thus, a general ban on individuals is possible, but only by a collective effort of people who have otherwise no legal obligation to each others
i think you could enjoy lemmy. just have to do the more nieche stuff.
idk about polarized is the right term, but the people that get banned on reddit do come to lemmy and you can see why they got banned on Reddit, but if you well adjusted enought they probably leave you alone