What’s killing Lemmy for me is its rapid descent to 4Chan quality ‘discussions’. Mod tools are piss poor which is my internal explanation for most Mod’s blatant bias, haphazard enforcement, and wildly disparate punitive actions. This is exasperated by Federation, supposedly a feature, which essentially ends up diluting the already minuscule population amongst several similarly themed communities, and renders punitive measures pointless.
I could literally tell a Mod to eat a bag of dicks (with a ridiculously high probability of being justified), get banned, and be right back in 10 minutes. Mods need better tools to standardize their performance and simplify the workload, and better oversight against their bias (or at least a way to rate a communities bias before signing up for an instance). As an example .ml looks just as viable as .world when a new user is looking to join and both instances have VASTLY different experiences for the same reasons: bias and reputation.
;tldr Lemmy is essentially lawless, which is a ‘feature’ that appeals to the wrong people at all levels in the community, and that is going to keep Lemmy down despite being better than Reddit.
What’s killing Lemmy for me is its rapid descent to 4Chan quality ‘discussions’. Mod tools are piss poor which is my internal explanation for most Mod’s blatant bias, haphazard enforcement, and wildly disparate punitive actions. This is exasperated by Federation, supposedly a feature, which essentially ends up diluting the already minuscule population amongst several similarly themed communities, and renders punitive measures pointless.
I could literally tell a Mod to eat a bag of dicks (with a ridiculously high probability of being justified), get banned, and be right back in 10 minutes. Mods need better tools to standardize their performance and simplify the workload, and better oversight against their bias (or at least a way to rate a communities bias before signing up for an instance). As an example .ml looks just as viable as .world when a new user is looking to join and both instances have VASTLY different experiences for the same reasons: bias and reputation.
;tldr Lemmy is essentially lawless, which is a ‘feature’ that appeals to the wrong people at all levels in the community, and that is going to keep Lemmy down despite being better than Reddit.