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There is pretty much one thing that these places have that Reddit doesn't and that is a lack of CCP-esque account tracking and banning. Every other problem Reddit has is still here. Asshole mods that have zero accountability, toxic communities with fringe hiveminds, they are all still here.

The one thing that will always be missing because of the independent and 'federated' nature of these websites is the actual people. These website are fucking ghost towns. Looking through the top communities on here, there are only a handful that even get multiple posts a day. If you make a post on here, unless it's one of the top few communities, you're lucky to get a single comment within a day, if you even get one at all. You may get a bit of upvotes, but no one engages. On Reddit, I can make a post on AITAH or CMV or something and get hundreds of comments within an hour.

Another affect this has is basically eradicate any ability to have smaller, more niche communities. Reddit is famous for having the most specific communities of all time. One time I went on r/vizio to fix my Vizio TV, and they had solutions for me within minutes. There is no other platform where you can do that, and Lemmy sure as hell doesn't have the user numbers to allow for it. I mean you basically can't even find populated subs on here for even specific game franchises, the closest you can get to it is just c/games.

So yes, while Lemmy doesn't have the world's most oppressive ban system like Reddit, there is just no real content or engagement on here to justify not just trying to ban evade on Reddit.

This is just my personal experience though, I'd love to hear what you guys have to think

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[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Complaining about heavy-handed mods? Someone find the deleted post where they said something batshit insane and/or racist!

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Look, I am a community moderator here on Lemmy, and I agree with OP. There are a lot of moderators, whether they are on Reddit, Lemmy, or anywhere else, that should simply not be moderators.

I moderate the cars community (not the disney movie, like the main automotive community) on my home instance. Just me and one other moderator, its a pretty low traffic community. There was a third moderator who was dormant. Suddenly, that dormant account becomes active, reposts what the other active moderator had posted, then deleted the other moderators posts as "duplicates." They then proceeded to remove both me and the other moderator so that they were the only community moderator. I don't really mind; being a moderator isn't really something I want and my home instance admins had to ask me like, 4 times to be a moderator for that community. Anyway, I messaged the admins saying like, "hey, this other account suddenly became active after like a year of inactivity and while what they are posting isn't against the rules or anything, I don't know if this was from you guys or if you guys know about it." Needless to say, the admins took some actions including removing that moderator and reinstating me and the other moderator.

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It’s a low traffic community

slow clap

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 points 47 minutes ago

Thank you, I'll be here all week, folks.

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