Sorry for being a new user I guess 🙄

Hah. Lemmyverse peoples are all about censorship. “How can I filter this” “How can I censor that” “Let’s defederate from this and that instance” Etc.

Indeed! It's almost like people got fed up of their internet experience being a flaming pile of garbage.

I gotta be honest, while the Lemmy experience is a bit better than Reddit in some ways, its also the same if not worse in other ways.

Instance admins and mods are not really any different from the ones on Reddit. They’re still not immune to power tripping, and I have had to leave some communities and an entire instance that was suffering from that.

Its the same flaming garbage everywhere you go, because the flaming garbage isnt the platform, its the people. Sure, one or two users or communities might be okay if theyre niche enough, but the amount of people and communities I have blocked or filtered on Lemmy is drastically higher than when I used Reddit. Sure, most of those are bot or almost exclusively political stuff, but the epoint remains that Lemmy puts a lot more work on the user to tailor their experience than Reddit does, and that can be a very bad experience for most people that just want to laugh at memes and cat pictures.

You're on Lemmy.world, where my impression is that the threshold is pretty high before they defederate. If you want to be kind and see as little garbage as possible, you could for example join Beehaw, which has a focus on kindness. LGBTQ+ people who are particularly tired of bigots can join Blahaj, where the mods are very trigger happy about weeding out that kind of behaviour.

If you're unhappy about every approach to moderation out there, you can start your own instance and do it yourself. Of course most people won't, but it nevertheless renders them in less of a position to complain.

And yes, moderation cannot ever be perfect. It takes a lot for users to leave a community due to disagreeable moderation. But still, users here have a lot more choice.

Personally I'm testing a platform where problematic users (such as the one starting this comment thread) are marked with warning signs, so that I can identify likely trolls right away and alter my interaction with them. It's pretty neat.

What platform are you testing?

He is on piefed.social. Still super feature incomplete, but I like where the creator is going.