The more I use lemmy, the more it begins to just feel like all the same problems reddit had. It has the same problems with major communities having far left moderation standards that only apply to the right, the same hive mind users that just spam the same tired out leftist talking points over and over while refusing anything close to an actual discussion.

The only upsides are that downvotes aren’t used to punish you site wide, and the handful of non-leftist instances that exist, though they always end up defederated by all the major instances, effectively making them poor spaces for general discussion.

So what are your thoughts? Is this just the “more like under new management” from megamind? Is there hope for it to become a decent platform for everyone, not just the left?

Edit: yeah, it’s just as bad. Fuck the retarded admins and fuck the left

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I don’t think they really did that though. Maybe on some subs, but any unequal moderation is much easier to chalk up to subconscious biases than anything intentional (i.e. it’s easier to overlook rule breakage for a cause you agree with and enforce rules for causes you don’t). There are even laws on the books that police don’t need to apply justice equally, only that they need to apply them lawfully (i.e. it’s not a problem to hand out tickets to black people more frequently than white people, provided the tickets are legally valid).