I wanted to get an outside perspective on my Lemmy experience, so I go on /r/redditalternatives and bring up my experiences that I’ve described elsewhere here (tl;dr Lemmy communities are either filled with non sequitur ragebait or completely empty).

I get plenty of responses echoing my sentiment and offering suggestions like blocking and filtering. Plenty of others pointing out how Reddit sucks in its own way and how Lemmy addresses those issues (no creepy AI bots pretending to be real people). I feel my OP and the ongoing discussion is constructive and in good faith, and most people myself included express a desire to see Lemmy and the fediverse succeed despite our frustrations. But oops out of nowhere I get muted and banned with no explanation.

Fun times.

  • favoredponcho@lemmy.zipdeleted by creator
    253·
    5 months ago

    So you went on Reddit to complain about Lemmy. They banned you. And, now you’re back on Lemmy complaining about Reddit and looking for a sympathetic ear? Do I have that correct?

  • Auster@thebrainbin.org
    10·
    5 months ago

    Reddit’s community, as in the whole, feels like it plays by some unwritten rules where straying just a bit from those causes maximum persecution. And though I understand each platform has a culture, including here on the fediverse, Reddit’s I don’t feel like culture either.

    About adressing your fediverse concerns, I second the idea of curating your experience by blocking, subscribing, and manually looking the community list as needed. Furthermore, I’d also suggest keeping an eye on where the posts that cause you to be annoyed come from, since those not uncommonly come from the same places.

      • PragmaticOne@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 months ago

        Your Lemmy is not like mine. You needed to go into your preferences/settings and sort (no pun intended) it out.

        You also need to block users and instances. For example I have no want to see ‘anime’ bullshit so I block all the instances that seem to dominate that and occasionally you get a user that posts some but might be on an instance that you don’t want to block so I just block the user.

    • discoplasm@quokk.auEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      fwiw pretty sure your post was duplicated over on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com earlier today and there’s a little bit of discussion over there too including comments in support of points you made. idk why that person jumps to calling troll given you even mentioned a specific community you were posting in, even without initially knowing your username it was very easy for me to see that you have been regularly active in there for a year at least.

  • Malyca@lemmy.zip
    4·
    5 months ago

    I highly suspect Reddit is using ai to ban and that’s going as well as ai is going in other sectors.

      • StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
        1·
        5 months ago

        Nah, reddit will survive. Its just shit now. It will survive like Facebook survives. Now that its public it will find a way to make money.

        Its less like a ship and more like that old plot of land we all used to play in for one reason or another.

        Then, some asshole showed up and built a park and now its all cultivated and policed. It rents its space for concerts and craft shows.

        It will survive, but for the people that used it before to shoot fireworks or ride bikes, or even just get high talking about life, its over.