Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I’m just curious to know how y’all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?
Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I’m just curious to know how y’all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?
Feels good to see it growing, I made an account really fast after lemmy got released, but still used reddit, too. I realized fast this could be the “new reddit” after the API thing and made some commercial posts for lemmy over the last months.
The only thing I am not happy with is the defederation idea. Don’t misunderstand, it’s good to be free from extremist politics or porn, but in fact reddit isn’t that aggressive in the way defederation is done here. You just don’t subscribe shit-subs. And this kind of self control would be nice on Lemmy, too. Why I am not able to just defederate my account from stuff I don’t want to see would be better, imo.
I’ve seen admins asking for more fine-grained moderation tools. Maybe eventually things will work the way you’re hoping. Here’s a quote from a Beehaw admin,
Defederating prevents trolls on another instance from coming into comments in local communities to harass people. From an admin/mod perspective you have to take some kind of action to stop that.