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Indeed! It's almost like people got fed up of their internet experience being a flaming pile of garbage.
I gotta be honest, while the Lemmy experience is a bit better than Reddit in some ways, its also the same if not worse in other ways.
Instance admins and mods are not really any different from the ones on Reddit. They're still not immune to power tripping, and I have had to leave some communities and an entire instance that was suffering from that.
Its the same flaming garbage everywhere you go, because the flaming garbage isnt the platform, its the people. Sure, one or two users or communities might be okay if theyre niche enough, but the amount of people and communities I have blocked or filtered on Lemmy is drastically higher than when I used Reddit. Sure, most of those are bots or almost exclusively political stuff, but the point remains that Lemmy puts a lot more work on the user to tailor their experience than Reddit does, and that can be a very bad experience for most people that just want to laugh at memes and cat pictures.
You're right about this and I feel like I'm in the minority of people that are willing to spend a bit of time and effort to get something to work exactly how they want... similar to Windows/Linux
Indeed, but the difference is the ability for a community to walk away to another instance. You see that regularly, and that's a good thing
I agree with you, but you may have replied to the wrong comment.
I did, sorry about that!
It is certainly a minority. As a side note, most people these days prefer to buy a pre-built PC for more than deal with buying parts individually and assembling it themselves for significantly less money.
I know someone that decided they wanted to try buying parts and assembling a new PC for the first time ever, and when their motherboard arrived cracked they decided to return everything and buy another pre-built instead of just RMA'ing the motherboard. Cost difference of like $800USD for a worse machine because they didn't have the patience to RMA a motherboard. Its literally so easy to assemble a computer, but because they didn't get it exactly right on the first go they have given up on it and will never do it again.
What's wrong with people? What happened?
You're on Lemmy.world, where my impression is that the threshold is pretty high before they defederate. If you want to be kind and see as little garbage as possible, you could for example join Beehaw, which has a focus on kindness. LGBTQ+ people who are particularly tired of bigots can join Blahaj, where the mods are very trigger happy about weeding out that kind of behaviour.
If you're unhappy about every approach to moderation out there, you can start your own instance and do it yourself. Of course most people won't, but it nevertheless renders them in less of a position to complain.
And yes, moderation cannot ever be perfect. It takes a lot for users to leave a community due to disagreeable moderation. But still, users here have a lot more choice.
Personally I'm testing a platform where problematic users (such as the one starting this comment thread) are marked with warning signs, so that I can identify likely trolls right away and alter my interaction with them. It's pretty neat.
That platform you're testing also has a little icon next to accounts that are less than a week old. ;-)
Indeed - I very recently noticed mine was finally gone. ;)
What platform are you testing?
He is on piefed.social. Still super feature incomplete, but I like where the creator is going.
Oh so it’s basically an alternate/addition to Lemmy/kbin?
Yup! No microblogging like Kbin, but you’ve got the idea!
Cool, I hope it catches up. I’d be into trying a different compatible platform.
Thanks for responding :)