Please tell me if I’m the asshole here. But holy crap. I know mod’s get a bad wrap rap but wow do the mods seem WAY more petty and petulant here.
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“rap” as in: RAP sheet -> Record of Arrests and ProsecutionsInb4 banned for misspelling.
Nope, same. No rules broken or harassment to hide behind, just “I disagree with you, I can delete your comment, so I will”, basically.
I think I had worse with mods here because it’s smaller. On reddit it’s hard to see a ~20 people community in the front, so for the mods to notice you on reddit you need to post something very controversial or have a very overzealous mod.
It also doesn’t help that on Lemmy you can have two communities called “Technology”, one being about tech and the other about “why genocide is OK when this guys do it, with a side of tech”.
Got permabanned from NCD for asking a mod not to post porn on a non-nsfw community lol. Not after a long discussion, a single comment of “yo I don’t like this and I’m out if this is gonna be a porn community.” That doesn’t strike me as notably different from mod behaviour since the beginning of the internet though. At the end of the day they’re just online HOA presidents expressing pointless authority for the sake of feeling in control of something
I’m permabanned from Reddit so honestly I like the moderation better here. I haven’t even been banned from a sub.
I’ve had exactly the opposite experience, I’ve had some pretty wild takes and no interaction with mods whatsoever, federated systems make it easy to take your ball and play on another playground.
Reddit mods were always pretty heavy handed for the niches I spent time in.
I’ve been called slurs and been banned for being new on reddit, I’ve not had many issues here. Hence I’m here and not on reddit.