- abusive admins/mods
- mods being cults of personality
- vibe bans with incorrect rule used with no appeal process
- automod
- auto bans for participation in other spaces
I came here in November of last year looking for an alternative to reddit, and in that time, this space has transformed to look more like reddit than I ever expected it to become.
I don’t know what I expected, but it wasn’t just reddit all over again with a smaller userbase.


Reddit was distinct from social media. It was a forum, not a hellsite. Lemmy was supposed to be another go at that, mostly on a technical level, partially on a cultural level, with decentralization fixing a lot of late reddit’s problems.