I do have a lemmy account, but have not really returned to it in a while. Maybe I haven't found the right communities yet, but it had nothing about it that felt engaging. People upvoted, but nobody talked. No interaction. Digg felt more alive from day one. I replied to a post in a niche community with ~100 members and only afterwards realized it was @justin.
replyMy experience with lemmy has not been nice. A majority of people there are just downright awful, and the mods are often power-hungry and overzealous in their actions. Many times entire servers are defederated from many others due to how a large percentage of their users behave.
replyExample: https://0x0.st/8RmU.png
Despite its flaws, X seems to have a better balance between what's allowed and what's not than other non-niche social networks.
replyFuck X. Various people can shove that 'better balance' completely up their jaXie.
replyLemmy has the same energy as ice: a bunch of rejects from other mod communities showing up to render their version of justice upon federated folks
replyYeah, the primary instance (lemmy.ml) isn't the best.
replyI use mander.xyz, it's science focused, but they also have a policy of only de-federating instances that host CSAM.
Isn't the biggest instance Lemmy.world? I thought .ml was the oddball fringe dominated by tankies.
replyWhere is that policy located? I could not find it.
replyTheir /instances page also only shows a single blocked instance, whereas something like programming.dev shows lots of questionable instances blocked.
Honestly, I couldn't find it either, but the owner talks about it in his post about blocking threads https://mander.xyz/post/1062661
reply> A majority of people there are just downright awful, and the mods are often power-hungry and overzealous in their actions.
replyIf you're telling me it's _worse_ than reddit in this regard, I can only imagine how terrible it is.
Lemmy is server software, it's like saying you don't use phpBB because it has bad mods
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