Not to be a clit but can we all users get together and create active communities to counter reddit or out do them with better mods?
Not to be a clit but can we all users get together and create active communities to counter reddit or out do them with better mods?
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"Can we have a better relationship than you did with your ex?"
We are who we are and Lemmy is what it is. How the userbase and the platform develop can be better than Reddit, because Reddit belongs to the bots and hedge funds, but that depends on what happens between us.
We left Reddit, and some of y'all are unfaithful to Lemmy, for weak reasons and Lemmy isn't Reddit.
This is where we are and it is up to us and Lemmy to grow together. Lemmy or us can fuck up a good thing by trying to make Lemmy into what we miss from Reddit and Lemmy not being what Lemmy is.
Fuck Reddit. Lemmy deserves to be our main bitch that tolerates our fondness for Reddit because it isn't as great as Reddit was; but Lemmy could be the best we ever had if we are faithful.
What's killing Lemmy for me is its rapid descent to 4Chan quality 'discussions'. Mod tools are piss poor which is my internal explanation for most Mod's blatant bias, haphazard enforcement, and wildly disparate punitive actions. This is exasperated by Federation, supposedly a feature, which essentially ends up diluting the already minuscule population amongst several similarly themed communities, and renders punitive measures pointless.
I could literally tell a Mod to eat a bag of dicks (with a ridiculously high probability of being justified), get banned, and be right back in 10 minutes. Mods need better tools to standardize their performance and simplify the workload, and better oversight against their bias (or at least a way to rate a communities bias before signing up for an instance). As an example .ml looks just as viable as .world when a new user is looking to join and both instances have VASTLY different experiences for the same reasons: bias and reputation.
;tldr Lemmy is essentially lawless, which is a 'feature' that appeals to the wrong people at all levels in the community, and that is going to keep Lemmy down despite being better than Reddit.