I sort of disagree, abusive power mods / admins can ruin your interaction with any community, big and small. The only thing that varies is how much of an effect that they can have and whether you have the bad luck to get targeted by their small insecure egos.
Is there a solution to this issue?
Ultimately you need some kind of mods.
If people recognize the problem, it can be more robust like our legal systems. Maybe the federated nature of the system could also work towards one.
I hang out in a large and tightly moderated discord. Its all very public, logged, tracked, and mods make just sbout every decision as a team. Best of all, most warnings fall off after 6 month. Youre forgiven over time. Fuck yeah, I think federation could offer us some incredible moderation paradigms. We aren’t the first to suggest Lemmy lacks moderation tools, of course.
Well don’t be vague about it, post the details on a Meta board and let us see if you’re raising an issue that deserves more attention.
It has been, and it has been surprisingly ineffective.
I’m just here for the pretty 3rd party apps
Same. I can’t stand the official reddit app, so here I am.
There are dozens of us!
I’ll take smaller over shitty big platforms and their shitty ads and apps and data mining.
I’m trying to post more comments and engage with Lemmy.
Side bar, they made a game called starship troopers: extermination, and it’s great!
I’m doing my part!
Lemmy may have fewer people, but Reddit has lesser people.
Yeah, no, putting other people down is not the way to go, and is usually a trait of social networks I tend to avoid. Here’s what you could have said:
Lemmy may have fewer people, but it has more passionate people.
I enjoy the smaller community. Theres a chance in hell ill see, or even be involved in a conversation beyond movie references and memes.
I also like memes but yor feel me?
It’s honestly pretty stable at this point. There’s only maybe one or two bugs left but it’s very usable. I’ve enjoyed the conversations I’ve had on here too.
There’s just meme, news discussions on here. I would like to discuss hobbies like video games, TV series but there are no communities about that
Before Lemmy I was on Reddit for many years so I know exactly how to help.
Your hobbies suck and you don’t know shit 😉
Sure, being hostile out of nowhere. Great Lemmy user there
I was obviously joking, as people on Reddit sometimes can be like that for now reason (maybe just to pretend to be smarter or something).
Back in the old BBS days, we didn’t slice ‘n dice human conversation into tens of thousands of rigidly-defined topic bins. We just… talked to each other. The categorization came later as the teeming masses got online, and large forums became unwieldy.
Lemmy is still small, and the slice ‘n dice approach doesn’t work. Just find a community that’s general enough, and post about the things you like.
I only use reddit for niche hobbies. None of them exist here on lemmy, and I don’t have anywhere close to the time to make and moderate them.
I wouldn’t even worry about moderate them. Just do what you can do.
not yet. There is Retrogaming
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
There are definitely videogame communities. Not sure about TV, though. You could always make one.
Honestly if you’ve been on Reddit for a long time, you miss when it was smaller. It’s so big now that every sub is massive (which has its positives and negatives). But gone are the days when an AMA of a garbage man would be the big post.
I hate to break it to you Wood, but everyone besides you are just a script
Lemmy is just starting out, there are bound to be rough spots, so far Lemmy has satisfied my desire for some discussions, a desire from after the Apikalypse.
I still read reddit, but all my accounts are deleted, and I refuse let them win me back.
I still check some niche subreddits every few weeks, but only on my desktop, with RES. It’s a bummer that not every community is present on Lemmy yet, because I’m missing certain news and events now.
I go to reddit at work, I don’t have any reddit account any longer, but that is where I read stuff
for viewing reddit without interacting, i recommend the “stealth” app (i use the one from fdroid, and im not sure if its available elsewhere)
I find that the quality of content and people always takes a sharp drop the bigger the community gets
These daily posts about user count wrapped in stupid memes are making me want to leave lol.
I love the concept of fediverse and lemmy, but why bother posting this stuff?
Based and Lemmy pilled
This post gets it. It can stink that not every post has a bunch of conversations around it, but oh well.
Where the conversations do happen, they happen organically, and are often quite high quality, comparatively.
We can be thankful that Lemmy is (as of yet) mostly unencumbered with the problem of bots pretending to be legitimate users to drive the conversation specific directions (forum sliding, for example), and due to that we have some quality discussions that are able to happen.
