AITA? I called the cops on my neighbour because her tan was too dark after she came back from visiting her mom in {literally any country south of the States}

Looks like Elon Musk was allowed access to the control room. Steve Huffman swoons over fascists.

right like the actual reason is obvious but what's the "official" / stated reason?

Too many beans.

Boring answer: a sub having no mods is a typical reason why a sub gets banned.

It’s about damage control.

get totallynotlemmy ready while you are at it

Does it have to try hard? Didn't leftist remove themselves from a lot of places and purge their own comments?

Not true! you can get into arguments with random people about Marxism AND Linux!

There is discussion but the userbase's interests arent super wide so at the moment its techy and politicsy. Which is fine at least we arent following reddit which started out with racists, atheiests and child porn.

I've recently been checking out reddit to see discussion on a few topics not covered here, MMA and beyond all reason. I'm shocked by how low quality the comments are. I can open a 900 comment thread and not see a single comment that discusses the thread topic or discusses anything.

There are great discussions here.

The problem is that we have too few users, so most topics you'd want to discuss aren't going to have existing thriving communities to chat with you. All of Lemmy put together is dwarfed by single reddit communities. for niche topics.

I'm not complaining, because the barriers to entry and lack of popular awareness keeps the user base here smarter and more interesting to talk to. But for the good of humanity I do think we need open tech like this to get widespread adoption, and it's going to take a long time. Reddit had almost two decades' head start.

And looking at a timeline, at this point in Reddit's history a few years in, the most popular subs with the early adopters were politics, programming, abe science. Sounds familiar, lol.

Be the change you wanna see. They set this up to be as user driven as possible. You can start communities, discussions, all of it. I started a Zombie community to have somewhere to discuss my take on season one of Fear the Walking Dead. Not much engagement yet but ya gotta start somewhere. It'll never take off if everyone who isn't permabanned keeps slipping off to reddit.

We're growing slowly but at least we are growing.

!movies@piefed.social

!casualconversation@piefed.social

!science@mander.xyz

There are serious discusions, you just have to find them. Mostly news and technology articles, but there could be more.

This site is just way too diffuse and has too few real people actively participating. It is also missing some very basic things that would accelerate engagement. Right now, your profile doesnt tally your upvotes. This should be a pretty simple fix and would promote visibility into who the top contributors are and the perceived quality of their upvotes.

Organized events would also keep momentum going. I remember back when reddit had AMAs that were actually interesting and fun instead of thinly veiled opportunities to plug a recent project while talking to someone's PR manager.

The aesthetic could also use a revamp. Nothing tailored to smartphone usage (blech), but maybe something that fills the screen by default, and improves readability? Comment sections are less easy to follow than on pre-IPO reddit. Native hoverzoom would also be nice. Is there anywhere to actually have an exchange with the people running Lemmy?

The real tragedy is that nobody read that masterpiece of an insult.

Yes, we are the baddies, from Reddit 's pov anyway. We will burn down their corporate greed and glass towers! And we shall so it from points that nice desk chair!

m'lemy

I don't think so. I see people on r/fediverse linking it.