Well, that’s not true. The situation is nothing like Voat. Sites that are self-contained without open source software: yes, I expect those to close down within a year or two.
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Comment105@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Nobody seriously expects Lemmy to last that much longer than Voat and similar “alternatives”.
squiblet@kbin.social 1 year ago
DarkThoughts@kbin.social 1 year ago
I do see a severe lack of moderation in the Fediverse though. Everywhere are extremistic views being spewed by far right & far left users and mods don't give a shit, even after reporting those people. Insults stay, conspiracy bullshit stays, pure bigotry stays, the most heinous hate stays, and more importantly those corresponding accounts stay.
It really makes me want to use it less and less. I already blocked Lemmy.ml instances but it's such a widespread issue in many of the largest communities. If you combine that with the already pretty low engagement on those various platforms then I don't really see the point anymore.
squiblet@kbin.social 1 year ago
Where are you seeing that? I have seen extremist left views. People wanted to defederate from Lemmygrad and Hexbear over that, plus annoying trollish behavior, and many instances did. There was extremist rightwing BS on exploding heads and rammy, and people wantged to defederate... and did. Other than that, I see people acting polite, reasonable, and debating in complete sentences. I really can't think of any examples I've seen of what you're talking about. I guess I've looked through the modlog and seen some abusive posts... but well, that's been moderated already.
DarkThoughts@kbin.social 1 year ago
https://kbin.social/m/modernmisogyny for example, which is basically a TERF community by one user, which I tried to PM to ernest some months ago.
Or here a somewhat recent thread for Starfield which still hasn't been removed: https://kbin.social/m/starfield@lemmy.zip/t/468548/Alternative-sources-for-the-No-Pronouns-mod-for-Starfield
You can check the user profile for even more garbage too.There was also a user here on kbin that was constantly trolling. He seemed to have quit a month ago though, or at least stopped commenting.
Pixelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
The_Mixer_Dude@lemmus.org 1 year ago
Not the guy you are asking but I think I could give some insight. I don’t think it’s going to “fail” in every regard but it’s going to decline significantly and become an echo chamber for the extremeist types that are driving everyone away. After all the more reasonable and normal active types have left the extremists will likely turn on each other over very minute details that don’t exactly correlate to their specific world view and it will likely turn into an all out brawl.
That being said Reddit is very likely to pull more stupid anti-user bullshit and send a few more waves of users to Lemmy and spike the numbers some more at which point hopefully has all their mod tools figured out and communities get solved to actually allow for niches to be usable.
The success of Lemmy lies entirely on a perfect timing of Reddit fucking up again before the infighting becomes too bad and people returning to Reddit warn people away from going to lemmy