Here is my notes from using Lemmy:
- There is core limitations on Lemmy which cannot be fixed even on the long term( for example finding communities via search. Results from .world is very different from the result that your instance fetch, no ability to upload media with the same ease and speed of Reddit,...etc);
- Herd mentality is very deep on Lemmy, compared to other social media websites;
- People seem to take disagreements in opinions personally, which is weird on it's own;
- Lemmy users would like to have a working cancel culture so much that they would have no problem deepthroating a dick to get it;
- Lemmy users and with them Digg 2.0 users, hate with passion anyone who criticize their platform and is ready to go against logic to defend it;
- Lemmy Admins and moderators seem to have a control fetish: on Reddit, it was very normal and easy to me to reach out to a mod to restore my posts or to explain himself and even discuss and change rules or reverse discussions. Yes there was some of them who also had control fetish, but in the communities which I used to use that was kind of rare. Meanwhile here there is no modbox functionality which complicates talking with mods;
- Some Lemmy users seem to be easy to obsessive over things.
I feel there needs to be disclaimer on Lemmy servers/introduction page to warn people about negativity on the platform, but I don't think it will ever happen.
About moderation, I feel the only outcome that will happen is bad moderation (IMO) will keep happening on the platform till either the servers hosting communities go down or till the mod become inactive.
On a side note it feels like a lot of Lemmy servers are suffering financially and might close soon, while Lemmy developers did not even try to help them by implementing third party upload functionality(Imgbox, catbox, imgur,...etc) in the app and the web front end to lighten the load on the server admins. Right now most Lemmy servers I know of are protected by Cloudflare and pictures uploaded on some servers don't open natively(you need to click it as a normal link and pass cloudflare verification to see image).
It's what it's here. but I just wanted to lay out what I think about Lemmy culture, moderation and software.
I agree like 70% but it extremly depends on where on Lemmy you are.
E: And I partly definitely disagree:
Never had such problems. I can find all the communities I want to find. Most communities I can't find are on instances defederated by my instance for really good reasons. Media upload speed? Depends on your internet I guess. And types of media... Yeah video-upload would be neat (even tough I don't really need it), but Reddit had the same problem last time I used it and catbox.moe etc. aren't that bad of alternatives. Also Lemmy is young, video-upload might be possible at some point, surely no problem which "cannot be fixed even on the long term".
... Just write them a DM? The few times I had to contact a mod this was the easy way to go.
It's the internet. There are people who are really into stuff, so what? It's like Reddit on speed.
You do can upload media via catbox & Co. And I for my part can see most of the media, at least when I couldn't it was due to the media being deleted. There might have been some cases of federation issues or stuff, but they really are seldom.