The sad reality is that while there are a lot of great people on Lemmy, there are also some who use the platform to attack others, stir up conflict, or actively try to undermine the project. Admins are volunteers who deal with the latter group on a constant basis, this takes a mental toll. Please understand why our admins chose to step down, and be kind to the admins on whatever instance you decide to join.
lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month
Submitted 10 months ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
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who@feddit.org 10 months ago
Ledericas@lemm.ee 10 months ago
probably with the sudden increase of lemmy.ee users from reddit who were part of the ban waves since the beginning of the year, many of them are rightfully banned for spreading pro-israeli, russian backed and right wing propaganda. along with innocent users that were unceremoniously banned.
who@feddit.org 10 months ago
I haven’t been following Reddit events since I left a couple years ago, but if there have been recent ban waves for bad behaviour recently, it wouldn’t surprise me to see corresponding upticks in it here.
I wish more of us spoke up against rudeness, confidently incorrect ignorance, combativeness, tribalism, brigading, and other such stuff when it rears its head here. If all of us participated in moderation, I think it would be more effective and make our mods’ lives easier.
Sparrowette@midwest.social 10 months ago
It’s gotten to be as bad as Facebook and Reddit, tbh. Less of a reason to use it over the competition.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 10 months ago
reddit is becoming fb 2.0/
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
This always going to happen when a small group of people are going to try and the communications of a much larger group. They cannot scale and the more they try to keep up, the more tgey will cut corners and take easy, lazy decision.
Instead, everyone has to participate in community self-moderation. It should all be transparent and optionnal. Local sorting algorithms showing users what they ask to see.
Having a secret vanguard operating in the shadows is not acceptable,. Not only ut hurts them until they grow big enough to be the efficient secret police but then it creates an underlying organization of control shaping discourse on the entire platform.
The way forward is NOT to be reddit with extra steps.
Walican132@lemmy.today 10 months ago
I’ve noticed this a ton over the last two or three months. Lemmy has become so much more negative than it was when I joined. It’s a real bummer. I can’t even imagine trying to be a mod or an admin.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 10 months ago
coincides with the ban purges of reddit of recently.
Sandbar_Trekker@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Based on the uptick in “I was banned from Reddit” posts, I’m thinking that we’re getting a lot more users that were banned for good reason from Reddit. Looks like Reddit has also stepped up their game in their ability to keep those users off their platform.
brot@feddit.org 10 months ago
My instance constantly gets attacked for being a “pro genocide nazi instance”. Which totally is not the case, but admins and mods are trying to ensure that no content is posted that is illegal where they live. And local rules here are also quite sensible.
JayGray91@piefed.social 10 months ago
I mean if you're someone new and then inundated with terrible news every day because you're still getting the hang of moderating your feed by yourself, you're bound to carry negative attitude everywhere else.
reddit can, have been, and will continue to be angry right leaning, and here it's the opposite. I get it, there are matters worth being angry about. but surrounding yourself with it just makes it pointless
Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t know if it was that short term, but I’ve always been rather concerned with the sharp degree of hostility and even outright hatred that seems to be tacitly accepted or encouraged.
Tanoh@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think that is just an effect of growing, or at least not shrinking and sticking around. There is ni point in spaming somewhere where there are no active users.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
agreed. the honeymoon period post-reddit-exodus was nice but this place is just like everywhere else now.
MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Managing a federated network comes with a lot of responsibility.
propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe 10 months ago
Not really.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s not just federated networks. It is anything with user interaction. Managing and moderating any sort of sizeable social media site is a lot harder than people think.
JayGray91@piefed.social 10 months ago
it's why I said no to a discord server that I am chronically online in. I don't remember what was the active user count back then, probably just 100. the admins offered a mod position because I'm a good boi. I know I'll get angry at the slightest thing. but i always managed to stop kyself from posting angrily off the cuff. I am not fit to moderate strangers, even if their familiar strangers. dunno how I'd do with a smidgen of power.
I couldn't imagine the stress of moderating even larger network