• cryptosporidium140@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been wanting Reddit alternatives for a long time, I’m not throwing away this opportunity. If that also means I sift through fewer pre-packaged posts/over-moderated comment sections, I have nothing to complain about.

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      Yeah it’s hard to replace reddit and lemmy is by far the best. Just needs time to mature.

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      1 year ago

      where did you find over moderation? I have been over here for a while now and never found over moderation. Admittedly I am not active in any communities other than asklemmy and linux.

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        I might have phrased that ambiguously, I meant to say there’s less over-moderation here. Reddit got to a point where the mods were almost subtractively sculpting the comment section to echo their own thoughts.

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          well, this I can agree with. I asked that question because I had heard that lemmy was like a leftist dictatorship and anything that didn’t agree with lemmy mods was removed but that wasn’t my experience

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            It did kind of suck before the Reddit migration. The largest instances were primarily filled with tankies when I initially joined, so I left but I gave it another chance during the migration because I figured we’d be able to drown them out. Luckily it appears we mostly have.