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New to Lemmy. Why did you choose Lemmy when there are bigger alternatives such as 4chan and reddit. (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by Leapingfro9@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Just left reddit because I got tired of moderation and I do not agree with political views over all. I never tried 4chan because I heard it's messed up and supposedly inject maleware on visitors like porn sites do.

As a person new to Lemmy, I just wanna know why you chose here and what you like/ dislike about there.

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[-] Xirup@yiffit.net 4 points 7 months ago

I always wanted to be in the fediverse but I didn't like Mastodon at all and Lemmy (or his alternatives) didn't have almost no users... When the massive migration of users from Reddit to Lemmy happened, I took advantage of it and I've been here ever since (using other accounts).

[-] Leapingfro9@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

But why did you decide to choose fediverse when reddit and 4chan are much bigger and popular? What did you not like about reddit and 4chan?

[-] Xirup@yiffit.net 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I have never liked 4chan because I consider the lack of moderation to be a very very bad thing, but honestly I have never used it nor have I been attracted to it, on the other hand, I used Reddit for many years and I consider it to be ok (leaving aside the API abuse and training AI with your users posts), but I'm on Lemmy because I like the open source philosophy and I tend to use exclusively open source software, and since Lemmy is an open source project I really enjoy being here. I always wanted to use Mastodon but as I said, I don't like Twitter, so Lemmy is my paradise.

[-] Leapingfro9@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

What do you think about moderation on reddit?

[-] Xirup@yiffit.net 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I find it difficult to give an opinion on this, on the one hand I consider that it should not be easy to be a moderator but on the other hand I remember cases of certain communities (r/JusticeServed) where the moderators were corrupt and accepted money in exchange for banning someone from the sub, or tried to hide certain posts that did not suit them, and that seems to me to be complete bullshit but not all subreddit's mods are like that and you can not judge like that.

I guess Lemmy's advantage in this case, is that because of the nature of the fediverse it is more difficult for that to happen, but it can happen.

[-] Leapingfro9@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

It is something I need to figure out on my own but what is moderation like here? Similar to reddit? Are mods paid or volunteers?

[-] Xirup@yiffit.net 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think on Reddit most mods were volunteers, those who were paid were the admins.

And so far I haven't encountered any problems with moderators personally although not long ago there was a problem with a community (c/shitposting) where some unscrupulous users started to upload child pornography (CP) (another term is used but I don't remember) in the comments as images and that sucked because Lemmy unlike Reddit has no automatic post deletion tool (like bots) or enough moderation tools (as I have read from some moderators) and you must consider that the instances are maintained by people like you and me without any legal backing, if I have an instance where I federated with you and someone uploads CP to your instance, that CP will be in my own instance and that can have serious legal consequences for everyone. and besides, since moderators are volunteers they can't spend all day checking every post and comment because they have a real life out there.

[-] Leapingfro9@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Sorry, not exactly following you. So are Lemmy mods volunteers too?

[-] Xirup@yiffit.net 1 points 7 months ago

Yes.

[-] Leapingfro9@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

Any cases of "power tripping" by the mods? I feel reddit mods in general fail to be impartial. What is Lemmy's approach to prevent that?

[-] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 1 points 7 months ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

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