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Personally I think not having karma limits is nice currently! I understand why they were used but grinding karma as a lurker on reddit was frustrating.

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[–] Csynthare@lemmy.fmhy.ml 56 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] FreezingInFuckingHell@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Hah. It's probably gonna be worse here.

[–] ram@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

They main instances have taken strong stances against nazi shit. The Lemmy developers are leftwing communists even, and they run lemmy.ml, so I don't think defederating from servers who'll platform nazis is unlikely.

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[–] cybermass@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

This is the big one

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[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Getting banned in one subreddit you never participated in for daring to have a comment (regardless of the content of that comment) in another subreddit.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I see the same shit in the Fediverse though. Mastodon admins blocking a server just because they refused to participate in a shared block list.

Someone’s going to make a script to ban a non-local user based on your remote posts, I guarantee it.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Isn't the federated model specifically designed as a solution to undesired moderation? If a server is ban happy, users won't go there. Problem solved?

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[–] IverCoder@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Which is important if you don't want the Fediverse to become the next Voat.

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[–] croobat@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't wait for the screenshot of a Reddit post of a Lemmy post of an Instagram post about Elon tweeting some shit.

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[–] itchy_lizard@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Posting pictures too much, including pictures of tweets or pictures of news headlines.

Please link to the fucking article.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Yes! Many sumbreddits that actually had a point and were dare-I-say educational quickly became just twitter sceencap platitudes, on repeat.

I get it, easy to read and agree with and upboat, but ultimately just dumbing the place down to the lowest common denominator and burying anything with effort or insight.

[–] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The comment "This" is annoying to me. Just use the upvote button!

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

The comment "this" comes from sites that don't have votes. The equivalent here is voting. It really is that simple.

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[–] Lobemanet@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Upvote/downvote counts mangling. Just show the real numbers, don't mess with them with an unknown "algorithm".

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[–] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Reddit has a longstanding reputation for being a hive of scum and villainy (like hosting the_donald for years, or kotakuinaction, etc). I really hope that Lemmy keeps with the general left-leaning vibes of the fediverse overall, hopefully being a good space for queer people, women, people of colour, etc.

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[–] maporita@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Shadow banning.. one of the most Orwellian moderation tools ever.

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[–] deva@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

Mods locking threads because β€œy'all can’t behave” jfc just ban accounts breaking the rules and let the rest discuss

[–] tookmyname@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thirsty comments. Puns. Meta humor. Dog language like β€œfren.” People who use the word β€œstonk.”

[–] Mane25@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A relatively small thing: the 500-comment viewing limit for normal accounts. So many times on Reddit I've been put off engaging with posts with 500+ comments knowing that nobody would see it. It's stupid because comments are just text and unless the software design is absolutely terrible then simple text comments shouldn't take up bandwidth at all.

[–] avidseeker@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Funny that Reddit pretends to be saving you bandwidth by not loading comments, but has no problem loading 100MB of javascript bloat.

[–] spin@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The power that the admins have. While most subreddit bans were justified, in my opinion, it just felt really off for them to have so much power.

[–] mcc@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

Here admin has even more power, except it is limited to their own instance. So it is more on the user to be prepared. You don't want to be too attached to your data on a single instance. The instance might be abandoned, down, gone; the admin might go crazy. And the solution isn't to have the admin be more reasonable. The solution is to hedge your bets on multiple instances and multiple communities.

[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Karma penalty limits
  • Reposts
[–] JasSmith@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (38 children)

Censorship. All the major subreddits became political echo-chambers. Reddit was founded on free speech and open discourse, especially when it was really uncomfortable. I'd love to see the same for Lemmy. Over the years I've seen authoritarianism creep into the moderation policies of most major subreddits. Today, even posting on the wrong subreddit is grounds for being banned from dozens of major subreddits. Even having a polite disagreement about, for example, anything to do with "trans," is grounds for being banned.

[–] dr_catman@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

So the one thing on Reddit that you wish to leave behind is mods deleting transphobic comments? Lol

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[–] rss3091@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Reposts! The same 20 jokes being reposted on r/funny to the point that they're no longer funny.

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[–] Lemmington@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago (9 children)

The forced 'inside jokes' that filled so many threads, so many times you would see a post and be able to predict the top comment and its replies. Hoping that the lack of account karma helps with that.

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[–] LlamaSutra@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People taking the voting system so seriously. On Reddit people got offended by being downvoted. Sometimes people downvote just because it’s sitting at a low number.

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[–] Kurt@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

Flair would be nice, but I think Lemmy should do it its own way with hashtags. It would be cool to search for hashtags within specific communities, subscribed communities, entire instances, and all instances.

[–] DevCat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Mods who are running 10 major subreddits. It gives them too much power to steer opinions.

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[–] lhx@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Some way to cut down on bot spam / bot shills. The political manipulation in Reddit really grew thick 2015ish and never went away.

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[–] gronapa@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Realized another - the awards that reddit created were out of control. I didn't mind avatars too much since customization can be fun and it was optional, but the awards are spammed and shown on most reddit clients.

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[–] fruitywelsh@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Mod culture is always odd to me. I kind of wish there was more community modderation, and less dictators for life running things.

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