Title. Alt account cause obviously.
Been on lemmy for like 2 years, at first it was okay, possibly because I started on lemm.ee (RIP), possibly the influx of new users from reddit has changed things, who knows.
But now I keep seeing all the same things happen here that happened on reddit. People abusing rules that go unenforced, mods removing posts/banning users only when they take offense, users (and even mods) fighting each other over instances like rival gangs, communities propped up by single users, all of it.
The only actual differences I’ve found are that there’s no ads, and some instances have a more gated sign-up process to deter bots/spammers. That’s it.
There are some good faith users of course, but it seems the vast majority just want to be in a safe space echo chamber and talk shit about each other. It’s like that meme from the office: corporate needs you to differentiate these images, and one is reddit and the other is reddit wearing a lemmy mask, they’re the same image.
Was on Reddit since it started, left about 4 years ago during the reddexoxodus— it’s nowhere close. not even in the same galaxy. Sure, there are some pretty nasty corners of Lemmy, but on the whole, it’s much more like Reddit was around 2007 to 2010. It’s still pretty virgin territory. Although it is “maturing” much faster than Reddit did, but that’s to be expected.
And Reddit has become much more foul in the last few years.
reddit started the purges last year, many couldnt even return to the site without using different Ip and devices, and you have to be vigilant because reddit will eventually detect them. its not something a normal user would do. the purges were so much different previous ones, because they were using AI to just indiscrminately ban people with little recourse. and i heard people appeal for months or a year without any kind of word from reddit. when before the purges they at least will get around to responding eventually. more than likely they dont respond because they ban too many and unlikely want to handle that many appeal requests.