Just curious

    • Rose@slrpnk.net
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      10 days ago

      The top mods

      The power mods are bad, yeah, but I don’t entirely blame them for anything. They’re unpaid labour, and doing something that no one should be doing for extended periods of time, let alone without compensation. No wonder they’re totally unhinged.

      (Which is why I don’t create new Lemmy communities because, oh shit, I’d have to moderate them, and, well, urgh.)

      • brax@sh.itjust.works
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        10 days ago

        They’re just as bad for removing content for seemingly no reason. Often times they do it silently so you have no idea your post was removed.

        • Rose@slrpnk.net
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          10 days ago

          Yeah but they’re just delirious poor bastards at this point. Can you really blame them? Reddit gives them no break. They haven’t given them a break for decades now. …hell, if Reddit tells them to remove shit, they just do it.

          I’ve moderated unrelated web stuff for a bit and I can’t fathom how anyone can volunteer moderate stuff for extended period of time across a bunch of forums. Poor sods. Should have unionised or something.

    • doodledup@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      I saw once a post that called for killing Musk. If you mean that kind of anti-nazi post then a ban is justified.

      • Steal Wool@lemm.eeEnglish
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        11 days ago

        Gee I wonder if that’s the kind of post they were talking about?

        🤦‍♀️

        derp-a-derp

          • BBQuicktime@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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            11 days ago

            If somebody tosses up nazi salutes, they shouldn’t be surprised when people want to put them six feet under with the other nazis.

    • Lady Butterfly she/her@lemmy.worldOP
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      11 days ago

      Ugh, the ads pushed me nearly over the edge. They’re infuriating and absolutely NEVER relevant to me. At least try to sell me something I might fucking want!

      • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        11 days ago

        The ones in the comments piss me off so bad. They look like a normal comment but then you’re just like “WTF this makes absolutely no sense!” Then you realize it’s an ad. Rage inducing!

  • Rose@slrpnk.net
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    10 days ago

    I’ve not been using my main account for years now. I’ve had an alt account for discussions about sex and sexuality. I recently deleted that one because it was just utterly pointless now, and I won’t go back. Both the activity levels and quality of the discussion in sex subreddits has been plummeting in the recent years, and now, I just don’t know if the people who remain are just bots or what. The whole thing that was actually one of the things that Reddit could have had an advantage on, because they just allowed sex related subs to exist and didn’t care if it was profitable. But with so many people fleeing the site, there’s less and less of that critical mass of users to go around.

    So niche discussions don’t work even when they’re definitely not “niche” discussions is top worst thing. The rest of top 20 things wrong with Reddit can be summarised as “admins are stupid and we hate 'em”

  • Aeri@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    The platform is apparently run by people who are pro-nazis so that’s fun. They pulled the trigger on Banning me for an incredibly flimsy reason.

  • passepartout@feddit.org
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    11 days ago
    • effective API shutdown for everyone but themselves to force users onto their objectively worse own app that is filled with ads and telemetry.
    • shadowbanning and even real banning for flimsy reasons. Banning whole communities because they think it pleases shareholders.
    • AI agents that pollute and distort the discourse. Like posts with 10k upbotes and 5 comments.

    That and essentially all the additional things that come with an IPO. All corporate owned social media has gone to shit sooner or later. Most platforms didn’t even make it that far.

  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Censorship — So many subs have extremely odd restrictions on posts and comments; special rules to be able to comment; a list of words or phrases that shadow-remove your comments, etc. This sometimes doesn’t matter with day-to-day stuff. It inhibits the capacity to explore controversial topics or have hard conversations. “Can’t meta-refer to another thread or sub,” “We want good content, but don’t post lengthy sourced write-ups!,” You find after dissecting why your comment was shadow-removed that “genocide” or “apartheid” trigger removal. No Ellipsis use on one sub, lol. I have a list of censored words by sub. Can’t explore tough issues without legitimate adherence to free speech. It’s one thing not to enable bigotry and incivility, but we need to be comfortable with being uncomfortable sometimes in order to yield breakthrough progress across echo-chambers.

    Power-tripping mods — It has become worse in recent years. Subs that used to have respectable mods and a true appeals process just comes down to them blindly reaffirming whatever judgement there is absent of reason or ethics. Ultimately they aren’t arbiters of civil discourse but more often than not blatantly attempt to shape discourse relative to their own agenda; r/news and r/worldnews are notorious for this, particularly.

    Blocking — The hit-and-run of users throwing out weak arguments then running away by blocking is itself disappointing; but that when a user blocks it nukes the rest of the thread, disallowing you to respond to anyone else who independently replies to you makes ZERO sense.

    (Bonus: bots, but that’s a given).

    In the end I’ll go wherever the people are. I’ll use reddit, lemmy, and I’m hopeful that the new old Digg returning with Kevin Rose and Ohanian will work out.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Reddit filters also increased in thier filtering, in response subs also did the same. so a user is facing against 2 forms moderation, one from reddit proper to catch the general"botting" which is well known to be biased. and the 2nd subreddit filtering, some subs have high filtering methods/crowd control.

      i think users are only safe in niche subs that have low or no moderation in general.

  • deadcatbounce@reddthat.com
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    11 days ago

    Reddit is pretty much read-only for me now. Looks like many of you are the same because I don’t save or share to my browser very many anymore. Peeps ain’t writing stuff (of interest to me) on Reddit anymore.

  • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    I’m fully onboard with all the critique listed here, but I’m afraid I do still use R on a daily basis. Why? Because of sheer (and original / non-bot) traffic, I guess.

    This tends to mean that highly-useful, knowledgeable, expert-level commentary is still produced there in significant quantities, even if it does mean sifting hard through the dreck to find it. And that stuff can be hugely useful to me.

    That said, I feel like Lemmy has a significantly higher signal-to-noise ratio, so it doesn’t have to be remotely as big as R in order to achieve the same level of usefulness, and indeed, L is certainly useful right here and right now.

    But I guess the other thing is that most of the smaller and niche communities here could really use a membership boost. Maybe with the next reddit screw-up, that will happen, hehe.

  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 days ago

    >be me
    >make new account to talk about my suicidal thoughts
    >“1 new notification”
    >“automoderator has removed your post ‘I wanna kms’; reason: ‘Not Enough Karma’”
    >[Insert Crying Pepe]