Glad you are here!
There are instances of heavy-handed mod and admin actions here, but they are often held to account, generally on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com. Moderation disputes often end up discussed from a third party perspective on !fediverselore@lemmy.ca.
It is an echo chamber here too, but I have seen more often that opinions against the “narrative” getting -10 or lower but not censored. Some double down, are flamebaiting or downvote farming for unknown reasons, but there are times when you can see a genuine attempt at understanding and discussion from both parties. Over 7 years on Reddit (2016-2023), I can count how many times that happened on one hand, but on Lemmy it’s infrequent but it happens a lot more than that.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
While I obviously support and use lemmy:
You DO realize that lemmy has even fewer protections against bots and no vetting of instance owners (or even mods on those instances), at all, right? The big difference is that there won’t be a news post about “special interests” controlling discourse on here.
ViperActual@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
If instance owners do not want to vet their users behavior if other instances speak up, the instance that is misbehaving gets defederated from the rest. That’s the power of federated services.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
And all of that is super easy to detect and assumes that the majority of major instance owners are actively fighting this. Just like how free market capitalism ensures everyone is happy and satisfied.
This is not a simple problem to solve. It was a problem in the days of message boards, a problem in the days of digg/reddit, and is still a problem today.
Understand the risks and dangers of what you use rather than just assuming things will be ideologically pure.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Further, since instance owners are just a username…
If my admin got black bagged and replaced by someone else with access to her accounts… How long would it be before I noticed?
Mubelotix@jlai.lu 1 week ago
I disagree. While small bot attacks won’t ever be detected, a large-scale manipulation of votes would be obvious and easily countered
resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 4 days ago
And a distressing number of tankies in many prominent instances.