• DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Every online community I’ve ever seen has it’s fieflords.

    At least with lemmy, if mods / admins regularly over-step, alternative communities can easily replace them.

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      1 year ago

      That was possible on Reddit too. Every single sub with overbearing mods could have been replaced at any time with an alternative. A bunch of alternatives tried to get off the ground, some succeeded more than others, but most never overcame the original, if they ever picked up at all.

      It’ll be the same way here. If the community doesn’t leave the original home because they’re “settled there”, alternatives will not grow.

      This entire migration from Reddit should make it it very, very plain how utterly impossible it is to get large groups of users to move. Reddit is all but whipping them with jumper cables right now and they’re still using it.

      You can’t just expect communities to move because the admins suck. You have to actually attract them there.

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        1 year ago

        That was possible on Reddit too

        Not really. Reddit is a single platform, you get the same overbearing comment-editing admins, with the same tunnel-vision automod tools and black-hole recurse process no matter what new sub you make.

        Moving people off a platform is the hardest part, they need to learn new tools an ways of doing things… and TL;DR you lost them.

        On lemmy and the fediverse, leaving unwelcoming mods/admins behind is as easy as going to another instance, no need to change the ways of using it. Still need to attract that community, but it’s orders of magnitude easier on a federated platform.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I haven’t used Lemmy in a month because this site is more transphobic than Reddit. I’ll be here more now that Reddit isn’t an option, but it’s not like I think this place is good either. Lemmy needs to step up its game.

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          I haven’t used Lemmy in a month because this site is more transphobic than Reddit.

          Well that’s very disappointing if true. Could you give an example?

          Btw, just to be clear-- Lemmy isn’t “one site,” so you’re likely to get a wide range of reactions depending on issue/cause where you happen to be (communities, instances).

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            Look at my sub c/chaotesvspatriarchy. I created it on Reddit, moved it to Lemmy during the protests, and gave up on it after a while because lemmy.world users would see trans memes and downvote.

            c/twoxchromosomes@slrpnk.net is also an absolute terf magnet that I tried to get shut down

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      The worst I’ve ever seen in 20 years is Horatio on the “Battlefront” forum on Ars Technica. The very definition of a “Little Caesar Bitch.” He was Microsoft’s Semper Fi Guardian, and an absolute cunt. He lobbied very, very hard for his mod status, and blatantly abused his power over anyone who criticized Microsoft in any way. I’m convinced he’s really Steve Ballmer.