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Why? Are we not doing enough?
  • There are too many dimwits who think Lemmy was made so that they can build their echo chambers. So, there is no discourse, just stupid people encouraging stupid people. Anyone that comments otherwise is immediately removed.

    Most mods are dumdums. Most are obviously politically and ideologically motivated. It's their job to prune anything they disagree with, which means they can't help themselves and ban everyone. Most of the time it's a complete waste of time to comment in smaller subs. The dumdums have taken hold either by making the subs and controlling them, or by volunteering as mods with no oversight.

  • Bans, removals, and the inability to mod
  • No. Admittedly I am having trouble understanding what you wrote but that might highlight part of the problem. Mods who aren't native English speakers are mods in English subs. They have no idea what they are reading and react randomly.

    Also, the random people who volunteer to be mods. They don't volunteer with good intentions.

  • Bans, removals, and the inability to mod
  • It's more like content steering, yes. But from the perspective of someone that frequents a thread, it's shadowy. All the content vanishes and remembering the usernames that commented, so I can look up what was removed, is just not practical.

    It's really bizarre and sadly dystopian.

  • Bans, removals, and the inability to mod
  • That's the thing, you have to frequent particular threads to notice, but for your own posts, you can see the mod reasoning, if they are given. Most of the time there is no reason given, but every now and then there's a one word response that is clearly them not understanding words or pushing their own political ideas. And by doing that they've created echo chambers for entire subs. It's disgusting.

    In Reddit at least there is a big notice posted in the comment if they are removed. In Lemmy, they just prune everything so it looks like everyone agrees with the mod.

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    Bans, removals, and the inability to mod

    As much as Reddit sux because of the company's policies or mod problems etc., Lemmy is equally as bad.

    Shadow banning is rampant on both platforms for instance. The biggest problem is that the people in charge of subs, or the instances, are incapable of governing -maybe not the best word- and don't understand words. It's a complete shit show everywhere.

    Where have all the edgy and factual comments gone? Victims to mod bias and their political leanings. In some instances, they don't understand what they are reading, or don't like it, and ban everyone and remove posts like they are getting paid for bigger numbers.

    Wasn't Lemmy supposed to solve this problem?

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