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So, made the "big switch" from Reddit to here. My experience so far is bad: +90% reposts (seriously, even Reddit for me is < 20%), and just about all the rest is "Look at how awesome I am for standing up against the not-so-orange-anymore Satan".

Most of you missed the point on what it means to provide a humane alternative. Instead of liberating yourself, you're just trading in one oligarch for another.

Heck, Lemmy wont even allow me to post this as I want "only mods can be chiefs and shall choose their joy division as they see fit".

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[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 31 points 5 days ago

i feel like each sentence of that was less coherent than the one before. you should keep going, get weirder with it, see where you end up.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Uh, what?
You're writing this as if each instance is run its own oligarch.

@thedude@sh.itjust.works Can you confirm that you're secretly filthy rich and that you're funding the instance to push your agenda? Or any agenda? (No I'm not serious, in case there's any doubt.)

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Is this Oligarch we traded for in the room with us now?

[–] Elfenbeil@feddit.org 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don’t get your point. Can you try to explain it again?

[–] MagisterSieran@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Elfenbeil@feddit.org 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hmmm, server mods or community mods?

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Elfenbeil@feddit.org 6 points 5 days ago

Change it, leave it or accept it.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Lemmy is small and still somewhat insular, so certain topics tend to get more content than others. You can solve that issue by blocking what you don't want to see (by community or by user), and most importantly: participate by posting content yourself.

We don't have anywhere near the amount of users that you can treat this place entirely like reddit and just expect the content to just come to you.

Edit: Also, if you don't like how a community is run here, there's most lilely another version of it on another instance with different community mods. There's a ton of "ask lemmy" communities out there if you don't like lemmy.ml's moderation style.

The tradeoff for no ads and no corporate incentives is that you have to put in just a little bit more personal effort to curate the experience you want.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

Be the change you want to see in the world. Post some original content, comment on posts, add value.

The oligarch running my instance is the greatest person in the universe. I would do anything for them!

[–] Twanquility@feddit.dk 9 points 5 days ago

Bro needs to selfhost at some point.

[–] ryan213@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago

no there isn't a single oligarch, each instance can decide how they apply their rules seperately.

as for the content, you should subscribe to the communities that you'd be interested and look at the Subscribed feed.