Just started Lemmying today. Have lots of questions. Someone mentioned mod logs, so I went down a rabbit hole reading mod logs. The only reason I left reddit was because many mods are dicks. But reading the logs, it seems mods ban people and censor like crazy here too. Isn’t Lemmy supposed to be more free and open? How is this different from Reddit? I honestly don’t understand.
I’ve been hearing arbitrary ban in reddit, also heard the same complain here but it’s mostly from individual that have comment with thinly veiled vitriol. Still, there’s a few incident with power mods, but iirc it’s been resolved. Might pop up in the future though.
The culture here is a bit different due to the nature of self hosting, sometime admin get called power tripping but then it’s their server and people who contributed to the cost have no problem with the rule being set up and enforced.
My thing is vitriol should be allowed. Some people deserve vitriol. Same for trolling. Sometimes trolling is funny. Mods get carte blanche to decide what goes. I’m not trying to pretend to be Mr Rogers to keep from getting banned.
the good news is that if you dislike/disagree with any decision by a mod or admin you’ll always still have the option to either:
Or just mod your own community
I disagree. I don’t want a community full of vitriol. I come on Lemmy as entertainment, and reading through a bunch of angry people’s rants is not fun to me.
I like that there are communities moderated in a way that creates an environment I enjoy. And I’m pleased that there are communities out there for you to discover that are full of vitriol.
You and I are never going to have every single community meet our preferences and that’s ok.
I got banned by reddit by an AI automod. The messages had nothing wrong with them.