Oh, Lemmy is much worse in this regard. There are a lot of "normal" discussions on reddit, with a lot of "normal" users participating in them. Here the ratio of extremists is much higher.
this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2024
321 points (80.3% liked)
Unpopular Opinion
6297 readers
31 users here now
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
And everyone says to just ban or block, but the problem is they're brainwashing people that don't know to look out for it They need to not exist; not for us to just hide from them.
Thank you for this post. It's become unbearable and I felt like I was in a tiny minority for feeling this way.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Block whole communities. That's what I started doing. There's one instance that I would like to block but that feature isn't available yet as far as I'm aware. Reddit was the same way around 10 years ago, it's been pruned and censored to the point where it's more appealing to the average worldwide user. I don't want that to happen to Lemmy; not to sound dismissive, but utilize your block list instead of calling for more/better mods.
Unfortunately Lemmy.world hasn't moved to version 0.19.x or else you would have the ability to block instances
load more comments
(4 replies)
I would probably still use reddit, but basically gave up on it when i could no longer block subreddits, yet they could still block me.
load more comments
(7 replies)
It’s made of the same people. Same jackasses, same dipshits, same echo chamber circlejerkers.