I feel like the way activitypub works lends itself to people forgetting that each instance is technically its own entire “Reddit”, with their own admin team, who will of course have their own views, biases, and moderation policies.
Some will be completely over moderated, some won’t have any moderation at all.
Some will be full of tankies, some might be hard right.
The difference between here and Reddit is that you have to actively filter unwanted stuff out - there’s no algorithm doing it for you.
Perhaps that’s what some people find unpleasant about here?
Since you realistically aren’t going to get a community to change instances just because you don’t like the instance its on, you really only have two options…
If you’re determined to be on this community specifically, then you’re just going to have to tolerate the instance’s rules.
Otherwise, you can block that instance and try to look for a similar community in another instance. The double-edged sword of decentralisation is that you tend to get multiple similar communities in different places.
Besides lemmy.zip (i havent used it yet), I’ve noticed all of the most populated english-lang instances do this.
I’d cite examples but I don’t feel like it.
I haven’t felt any over-moderation here
It sounds like you might want to block lemmy.ml or something
I feel like the way activitypub works lends itself to people forgetting that each instance is technically its own entire “Reddit”, with their own admin team, who will of course have their own views, biases, and moderation policies.
Some will be completely over moderated, some won’t have any moderation at all. Some will be full of tankies, some might be hard right.
The difference between here and Reddit is that you have to actively filter unwanted stuff out - there’s no algorithm doing it for you. Perhaps that’s what some people find unpleasant about here?
If the community I want to participate is on an instance I don’t like or disagree with their instance-wide rules, what can I do?
Since you realistically aren’t going to get a community to change instances just because you don’t like the instance its on, you really only have two options…
If you’re determined to be on this community specifically, then you’re just going to have to tolerate the instance’s rules.
Otherwise, you can block that instance and try to look for a similar community in another instance. The double-edged sword of decentralisation is that you tend to get multiple similar communities in different places.
Oh it’s def a thing.
Besides lemmy.zip (i havent used it yet), I’ve noticed all of the most populated english-lang instances do this. I’d cite examples but I don’t feel like it.