[RobotToaster]

If you're looking for a new platform lemmy is probably your best bet, at least if a server goes down everything is still saved on federated servers.

[MildlySerious]

I do have a lemmy account, but have not really returned to it in a while. Maybe I haven't found the right communities yet, but it had nothing about it that felt engaging. People upvoted, but nobody talked. No interaction. Digg felt more alive from day one. I replied to a post in a niche community with ~100 members and only afterwards realized it was @justin.

[ranger_danger]

My experience with lemmy has not been nice. A majority of people there are just downright awful, and the mods are often power-hungry and overzealous in their actions. Many times entire servers are defederated from many others due to how a large percentage of their users behave.

Example: https://0x0.st/8RmU.png

[joeross]

Lemmy has the same energy as ice: a bunch of rejects from other mod communities showing up to render their version of justice upon federated folks

[pmdr]

Despite its flaws, X seems to have a better balance between what's allowed and what's not than other non-niche social networks.

[LightBug1]

Fuck X. Various people can shove that 'better balance' completely up their jaXie.

[pmdr]

You should really get help for that Musk derangement syndrome.

[AlexeyBelov]

Hm. It's unclear if the second comment is in good faith. If it's not, it's OK for it to be deleted. In my opinion there is a huge problem with Reddit mods: they are perceived as draconian, yet they actually remove only 1% of bad comments. It's pretty much impossible to moderate successfully on a per-comment basis in any sizeable community. So, the mods only moderate submissions.

[RobotToaster]

Yeah, the primary instance (lemmy.ml) isn't the best.

I use mander.xyz, it's science focused, but they also have a policy of only de-federating instances that host CSAM.

[Jordan-117]

Isn't the biggest instance Lemmy.world? I thought .ml was the oddball fringe dominated by tankies.

[ranger_danger]

Where is that policy located? I could not find it.

Their /instances page also only shows a single blocked instance, whereas something like programming.dev shows lots of questionable instances blocked.

[RobotToaster]

Honestly, I couldn't find it either, but the owner talks about it in his post about blocking threads https://mander.xyz/post/1062661

[huhkerrf]

> A majority of people there are just downright awful, and the mods are often power-hungry and overzealous in their actions.

If you're telling me it's _worse_ than reddit in this regard, I can only imagine how terrible it is.

[gzread]

Lemmy is server software, it's like saying you don't use phpBB because it has bad mods