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Lemmy is not immune to trolls, bad fait actors or propaganda - in fact, despite how bad reddit is, a lot of Lemmy instances are worse (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm done, I've been banned for expressing a different opinion (without insulting or personally attacking anyone), I've been accused of evading a ban with multiple accounts (this is my only account I've ever had on any lemmy instance), I've had people selectively ignore my comments and accuse me of things which I never said, and I've had people ignore valid criticisms and keep attacking me.

Reddit has many issues with trolls, one-sided discussion, and just general bullshit, but many Lemmy instances are way worse. The newfound freedom of Lemmy has attracted many extremists, from both sides, and many of them are moderators, who are more than happy to remove any contrarian opinions. This results in discussions being echo chambers

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

We're all here because we wanted to be a part of a different community than reddit.

False.

We're here because we wanted to be part of Reddit, but for one reason or another found it not feasible.

For my part (and I'm guessing many others, given the surge of new accounts around the same time) I had no desire to leave Reddit, until the API nonsense. So I was looking for something similar to or better than Reddit.

Not different. In fact specifically not different in most ways.

Certainly not "worse than".

That's not a fixed interest. There's nothing keeping most users here beyond a lack of options. I'm not interested in "building a space". The space is here it's just filled with recycled content from Reddit, narrow minded political extremism, and even worse of a hive mind than Reddit.

Your optimistic pep talk is all well and good but it's also somewhat naive and unlikely as well. You're asking a lot from people to show up to a shitty situation and just deal with it until hopefully, maybe, possibly at some future time it'll get better...and after being here many months, I've seen no change for the better and in fact I think it's gotten worse.

It's either that or we all ditch federated spaces and go back to reddit. Leaving the tankies and other toxic people to Lemmy.

Sounds good to me.

I'm pretty much there already, which is pretty sad considering I came here fully intending on Lemmy replacing Reddit for me completely, only to find next to zero content I'm interested in, no or dead communities for my interests, and awful comments when, out of other options, I turned to simply browsing defaults to at least read something.

I'm not fully there yet, but I'm about 90% of the way to accepting that Lemmy is a failed experiment, undone at least in part by the shitty community. To doing exactly what you suggest and leaving this place to the tankies and other toxic people...and of course the fatally optimistic folks desperately insisting it'll be great...someday.