As a person who just left reddit due to being tired of reddit mods’ power tripping, I asked folks here what are their reasons behind migrating here from other forums (most likely reddit too). It seems like none of the folks who answered had complaints on reddit mods. Do folks here not feel the same about reddit mods as I do?
I heard Lemmy mods are volunteers too. How do they compare to reddit mods? Did Lemmy do anything to ensure no power abuse to happen?
I heard Lemmy mods are volunteers too. How do they compare to reddit mods?
Lemmy mods are just discarded redit mods.
Did Lemmy do anything to ensure no power abuse to happen?
Lemmy is lacking seriously in that field.
The major difference between the forums is that Lemmy, for better and worse, have more active admins due to the nature of Lemmy. You are definitely going to have more active admins, which will influence how mods act.
Ok so have you ever seen an admin acting (unless you are one yourself)?
A few times.
The act of federation and defederation is an admin role and I’ve seen discussions where admins ask their users. The defederation from exploding heads and Threads is an example of that.
You have the allowing or removal of subs in an instance. That came about when some alt-right subs started appearing in lemmy.world and they were deleted.
You also don’t have the hard line between admins and mods on Lemmy that you have on Reddit. Beehaw and startrek.website are meant to be highly curated instances where the mods and admins work very closely together. In some cases, admins are also mods.
So, yeah. Admins play a far larger role in Lemmy than Reddit.
I was never a mod at Reddit. But I’m a mod here for a few communities. I try to be as “hands off” as possible, and step in only when needed. It’s been 7 or 8 months as a mod, and I have not yet banned anyone…
What kind of conflicts have you seen here?
The worst I’ve seen is some spam and some petty name calling.
Reddit and Lemmy mods are just people, I do think Lemmy’s decentralized model makes it easier to leave and find an alternative if your views don’t jive.
I’m pretty sure a lot of the mods here on Lemmy are just former moderators from reddit that were fed up with the site (me included).
Fed up with the site, yes, but I was never a mod until I came here.
I was one of the top 1%er redditors. They even included my comment in their FCC listing on Net Neutrality.
Top by karma? Or number of comments? Length of membership?
Karma.
Some probably were but I never was.
The thing is “mods” is not a monolith, not on reddit, and not on lemmy.
I saw a LOT of trash moderation on Reddit, and I’ve seen some on Lemmy as well. There’s good moderation as well.
I think what makes Lemmy different is a) it’s smaller so bad behavior is harder to hide. b) there are layers of administration.
If the mods on lemmy are a problem, take it to the Admins of the instance, let them decide. Admins are a problem? Join a new instance and defederate from the problem instance.
Reddit never had a model like that. The Admins were largely absent and really only took action against mods following the black out.
Where can I go to see them?
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Lemmy mods are the most sexy people on earth and everyone is in awe when they enter the room.
Aw shucks
They’re people. If you disagree about something, you won’t like them. If you never disagree, you never think about them. Yeah there are shitty mods, just like there are users who have earned their ban, whether or not they would agree.
just realized this is an enlightened centrist take. gotta go take a shower.
It’s the same concept. Downside here is the tools they’re provided with are a bit rough and need some more polish. It’s been an issue for some time. And there are less people here. That also means less moderators and that can sometimes be an issue.
On the plus side people tend to be a bit nicer here. So we can most of the time get away with it.
There is drama both there and here. Occasional disputes and arguments whether somebody deleted something out of personal motivation or because it was warranted. Some people have an attitude and don’t listen. Usually everything works to an acceptable level. I’d invite you to join and see for yourself.
Power abuse can happen. I don’t think there is a technical solution to make things like that impossible. It’s the instance admins who are responsible to handle that.
Bit long but well I had one reddit mod go absolutely balastic on me for saying I suspected a love Island contestant was coming across as gay to me. Wasn’t even malicious just thought it was strange he was on a dating show trying to land women.
And by ballistic I mean I got banned from that sub got about a chapter of text saying I was the scum of the earth for even thinking such a thing.
Then a day or so later I got other messages from other reddit admins banning me from the rest of reddit along with lots of other accusations that really didn’t make sense I can’t really remember them just thought that mods so furious he’s lying his ass off.
To be clear I never once insulted the guy/contestant and only said he was giving me that impression and he really really was.
Ultimately didnt really effect me I’ve always had a ton of alts and vpns I switch between but made me think that mod might have actually been out of his mind maybe a relation or something.
Lemmy I haven’t had an issue so far and hopefully don’t.
In general I think of reddit mods as thin-skinned cucks on a power-trip.
Haven’t interacted with many lemmy mods, but I assume they’ll trend in the same direction. It’s a lot of work for no pay, so it’s going to attract people with ulterior motives.
I heard Lemmy saw increase in its users recently. When was that?
I’m not sure, probably when reddit made another stupid decision
My ulterior motive is I want to help grow the fediverse.
If modding here ever gets as full of behind the scenes vitriol as it was on reddit I’ll probably stop.
(I got asked to help out a few times over there but I lasted less than a month in one of the big ones. A lot of it’s glorified data sorting of some really ick stuff).
What kind of stuff?
There is a lot of variation in how good or bad mods are. On Reddit you get anything from /r/askhistorians mods that are generally qualified in a particular branch of history and do a good job yeeting trash comments and on the other you have the conservative safe space mods that yeet people for not being conservative enough while screeching how pro free speech they are. All in all, I havent dealt much with most mods there.
Here though… theres a lot of automatic moderation going on. At least on the server I am on that yeets comments that say certain bad words which I think is a bit overzealous.
Lemmy’s moderation actions are publicly available so it’s easy to see which communities and instances have power tripping mods.
I don’t think they always do a good job, but it’s their community, I am unwelcome there if they say I am.
