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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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[-] 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?

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