I’m done, I’ve been banned for expressing a different opinion (without insulting or personally attacking anyone), I’ve been accused of evading a ban with multiple accounts (this is my only account I’ve ever had on any lemmy instance), I’ve had people selectively ignore my comments and accuse me of things which I never said, and I’ve had people ignore valid criticisms and keep attacking me.

Reddit has many issues with trolls, one-sided discussion, and just general bullshit, but many Lemmy instances are way worse. The newfound freedom of Lemmy has attracted many extremists, from both sides, and many of them are moderators, who are more than happy to remove any contrarian opinions. This results in discussions being echo chambers

  • 50_centavos@lemmy.world
    203·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de
      15·
      9 months ago

      Unfortunately Lemmy.world hasn’t moved to version 0.19.x or else you would have the ability to block instances

            • 50_centavos@lemmy.world
              2·
              9 months ago

              It’s not even enjoyable for me because it’s literal spam posts. It’s like the old school sex phone commercials. Doesn’t matter what the hot girl is doing or saying in the commercial, just put my show back on.

    • Kedly@lemm.ee
      6·
      9 months ago

      Instance blocking exists now, I used to ban all hexbear communities when I saw them pop up, but now I just have a blanket ban on anything hexbear, so I dont need to do that anymore

      • viking@infosec.pub
        21·
        9 months ago

        Hexbear and lemmigrad. And I’m reaching the point of blocking lemmy.ml as well, if it wasn’t for a few rare communities.

        • Kedly@lemm.ee
          2·
          9 months ago

          I’m on lemm.ee on browser, I’m an old fart who refuses to download apps when it can be done over the internet

          • 50_centavos@lemmy.world
            2·
            9 months ago

            I’m not even that old (no offense) and I do that too. I’ll use apps if it doesn’t collect any data, and preferably FOSS, like Voyager. Anyways, thanks for the tip, I’ll log in on browser for my instance blocking needs.

            Edit: jk, according to another comment, it’s not available on lemmy.world at the moment. Soon though.

    • John_McMurray@lemmy.world
      31·
      9 months ago

      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.