In theory as far as I can see Lemmy is heading for Reddit 2.0, which is way worse.
In my eyes, currently:
- Mods are abusing their powers, as usual.
- Lemmy. World is acting more like a company by day.
- Some instances block VPN and Tor.
- Federation is kinda of not that perfect right now.
- I guarantee that not a single instance will defend their users privacy.
So… That bring me to my question, Why would anyone who can use Reddit, use Lemmy instead?
Reddit admins started getting quite a bit more fashy banning people for even just upvoting certain stuff. I got caught up in that and hit with a bullshit temp ban, then before it got lifted on appeal I got hit with a total bullshit perma ban. It was also lifted on appeal, but by that point I was fed up and went looking for alternatives. I still use reddit a tiny bit, mostly posting questions on subs there when there isn’t a community here or there is but it has like 12 members and hasn’t seen a post in 3 months or whatever.
In theory any Lemmy Admin can ban you based on upvoting/ Downvoting any post, as Admins and Mods on Lemmy can see your upvotes and downvotes.
A Lemmy admin banning you only prevents you from interacting with communities on their instance.
Only the admins of your home instance can completely ban your account.
Power tripping admins get usually reported on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
And then what? You are treating the symptom not the disease. If we don’t have a direct built-in solution, then a single community to talk about power tripping mods won’t matter.
And then people leave the community managed by the power tripping mods for another one: https://lemmy.cafe/post/12094663?scrollToComments=true
That wouldn’t be possible on Reddit, those kind of posts would get removed