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What is the current state of Lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by ZenkorSoraz@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Has it grown like people have kept predicting? or is this peak lemmy? Did Peak Lemmy already happen?

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

A better question is... Is Lemmy better than reddit in some way so it's worth for users to switch to it?

I like that it's decentralized, but the largest instances seem to have moderation policies that are very similar to reddit.

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Moderation was always mostly in the user's hands, so it makes sense that it didn't change.

[–] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In what way was it in users hands? It's always been in the hands of the creator of the sub/comm.

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I have news for you xD the creator of the sub/community is a normal user. You can create your own community and run it however you want, even democratically or whatever.

[–] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Okay I did that, now what? There's nobody there.

[–] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 4 months ago

moderation policies that are very similar to reddit.

Or worse. Censorship and childish content warnings are rife. At least it's more transparent with built in mod logs but I wish there was at least some innovation beyond being just a federated reddit clone. Still nobody knows what an upvote means, same as reddit.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

I like that it’s decentralized, but the largest instances seem to have moderation policies that are very similar to reddit.

At least you can switch instances easily, so that's already a major improvement.