• fidodo@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I think it’s half moderators on strike, and half people acting disrespectfully because they have no respect for Reddit since Reddit showed them they have no respect for them. When the platform is run by a malicious faceless corporation there’s less of a feeling of obligation to be civil, but on Lemmy these instances are being run by volunteers and when I see the hard work they’re putting in to keep things running it makes me respect them and it feels more like an actual community that I want to treat well.

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      1 year ago

      I get what you’re saying and I don’t disagree. But there’s people who are openly disrespecting Reddit (which I am fine with) and then there’s people openly disrespecting ANYBODY (which I am not fine with). To me, it felt like people were just lurking and waiting for an opportunity to hate on something/someone. As others have pointed out, maybe it was always like this. But it definitely feels worse to me.

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          I was briefly a moderator of a sub with a few thousand subscribers, the amount of spam alone made me give it up. It’s relentless and never stops. The only thing that made it tolerable was the mod features in Apollo. I can’t imagine what it’s like with some of these really active communities with millions of subscribers. People just don’t realize how prevalent the spam/harassment truly is online, and Reddit screwing over the volunteers who clean up that shit is enough to keep me off for good.