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0x4E4F@infosec.pub 7 months agoThere was a peak, everyone enjoyed it, it was fun (for about 2 or 3 months)… then people started realizing this will probably never be a true place for niche stuff and started to go back to Reddit… plus mods started to abuse power, instances strted defederating in bulk whoever they see fit (which is not what the fediverse is all about… it should be a last resort 🤦), which of course pissed off users (let’s face it, if you’re on Reddit, you can see all of Reddit, not just parts of it). Now, there isn’t a single instance that isn’t defederated with at least one other instance. That and instances going dark over nigh (you go to sleep, can’t log in the next day, find out that your instance is lost on cyberspace)… yeah, that kinda tipped the scale for normies I think.
As I said, it’s good enough for techies, but normal users, nah… they want stability. They wanna be able to find a post that they posted 10 years ago and link to it. On Lemmy… there is no guarantee for that, especially if you’re on a smaller instance.
ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I mean I’ve only been on here for a month “moderate” a very niche shitposting community had my first shitpost get to the top in c/all and piss off most of .ml and watched mutiple instances just go pop and leave for a pack of cigarettes and some milk including one of the largest ones and i still can’t wrap my head round how all this works
0x4E4F@infosec.pub 7 months ago
It’s because the snowflake liberal techies are the ones that are left using Lemmy now 🤷… sorry, but that’s the truth… the extreme right and left wingers are no better though, so that basically makes up of about 90% of the Lemmy userbase now. The normies are gone. They tried it, some got pissed about the bannings, some about defederation, some about instances going dark and they went back to reddit 🤷.
There also seems to be shadow banning now (though I have bo idea how it’s done here on Lemmy). I posted this a few hours ago… no comments, no upvotes, no downvotes… this is the 2nd post that I get no replies on. I asked people on Lemmy if they could see it, some could, some couldn’t but. one of them got the post on their feed.
And this basically means that I’d have to switch accounts again (the first few times were because instances went dark over night), because someone decided to shadow ban me for… god knows what reason 😒.
Die4Ever@programming.dev 7 months ago
I don’t think shadow banning is a feature, but your post looks similar to this issue
github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4039
ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Prehaps if your worried about shadow banning you should consider switching to the .world instance as in my experience they tend to be quite lenient over there could also be that people aren’t interested in your memes comedy’s subjective after all what some people may find funny others may not although this is the .ml instance which is the instance which the dev is on and he has a history for shit like this
0x4E4F@infosec.pub 7 months ago
The weird thing is, there are no upvotes or downvotes. I’ve been downvoted to oblivion before, it’s not news to me, it’s the lack of it that makes me think that.
Fuck it, I’ll switch instances again.