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What is the current state of Lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by ZenkorSoraz@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Has it grown like people have kept predicting? or is this peak lemmy? Did Peak Lemmy already happen?

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

A better question is... Is Lemmy better than reddit in some way so it's worth for users to switch to it?

I like that it's decentralized, but the largest instances seem to have moderation policies that are very similar to reddit.

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Moderation was always mostly in the user's hands, so it makes sense that it didn't change.

[–] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In what way was it in users hands? It's always been in the hands of the creator of the sub/comm.

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I have news for you xD the creator of the sub/community is a normal user. You can create your own community and run it however you want, even democratically or whatever.

[–] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Okay I did that, now what? There's nobody there.

[–] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 months ago

moderation policies that are very similar to reddit.

Or worse. Censorship and childish content warnings are rife. At least it's more transparent with built in mod logs but I wish there was at least some innovation beyond being just a federated reddit clone. Still nobody knows what an upvote means, same as reddit.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

I like that it’s decentralized, but the largest instances seem to have moderation policies that are very similar to reddit.

At least you can switch instances easily, so that's already a major improvement.