Comment by RobotToaster
1 day ago
If you're looking for a new platform lemmy is probably your best bet, at least if a server goes down everything is still saved on federated servers.
1 day ago
If you're looking for a new platform lemmy is probably your best bet, at least if a server goes down everything is still saved on federated servers.
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.
My 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.
Example: 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.
Fuck X. Various people can shove that 'better balance' completely up their jaXie.
Lemmy 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
Yeah, the primary instance (lemmy.ml) isn't the best.
I 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.
Where is that policy located? I could not find it.
Their /instances page also only shows a single blocked instance, whereas something like programming.dev shows lots of questionable instances blocked.
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> A majority of people there are just downright awful, and the mods are often power-hungry and overzealous in their actions.
If 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