Well, to sum up the story, I was part of a community on Reddit that was extremely poorly moderated, but also because most of the users were very rude, right? And that blessed system of Karma, created a separation of classes between them, you understand, which is ridiculous. But since it is a very controlled and moderate environment, and the intellectual level of the people here is much higher, I’m thinking about recreating this group. What kind of rules should I put in the description to avoid confusion?
do it and expect to see divides similar to what you saw on reddit; but that’s the beauty of the fediverse.
when your community’s collective group-think becomes unpalatable to a significant portion of its members (and it will eventually since lemmy is political at its core) they’ll go off and create their own duplicate community without that toxic group-think.
“The intellectual level of people here is much higher”
Strong doubt on this one. I’ve seen the same people, same mentality. Nothing wrong with that though.
I have to disagree. Every time I revisit that place I’m reminded why I’m here.
After the API exodus sure got worse but I don’t see much difference from the reddit-before-that
Also, there are still a looot of power users still on reddit. So yes quality got worse there but it’s not like the bests came here anyway
Sad tho.
Lemmy wasn’t made with the promise of higher-end discussions or intellectual thought. Rather, the Fediverse wasn’t constructed with that in mind. It was made as an alternative to escape the grand enshittification that has poisoned the wells of Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and other overly-centralized social media platforms.
So I think you’re really aiming too high for what you seek on here. I’ve noted and seen very clear similar behavior on some parts of the Fediverse as I would on Reddit. You really can’t escape it because it’s not strictly a social media platform thing. That’s what many people continue to fail in realizing. It does not matter where you go, because you will find groups of no-life assholes with nothing better to do than to instigate fights and shit on everyone’s parade for their amusement. Along with other bullshit they do like victimizing themselves and crying to mods with made-up stories to get you banned.
It’s an internet thing and the internet in it’s entirety is bigger than any social media platform because those social media platforms are simply just parts of the bigger picture. So my point is, is that anyone can be an asshole, but there are always going to be dedicated assholes who live that kind of lifestyle everywhere you go. Going from Social Media Platform A to Social Media Platform B or to Social Media Platform C will not fix that. To be quite frank with you, I find it easier to stick with one community so that way you don’t have to deal with the chances of dealing with the potential assholes who’re going to be under different names.
And it also depends on how well moderated a community is. Keep this in mind.
