Reddit

The problem that Lemmy is supposed to solve - and it does solve - is the admins. Here, if you have a bone to pick against a specific admin, you can register into another instance. And if none pleases you, you can create your own, with your own rules. In Reddit however if you have a bone to pick with spez or another of his shitheads, you're out of luck because they control the whole thing.

Moderators are another can of worms. You'll find shitty moderators here, just like in Reddit. And you'll find a good ones too.

It looks like you don't really use the fediverse much at all. Not sure why you're so bothered?

The joy of this type of platform is that if you don't have a place to post your stuff you can just make your own. You will then have the ability to control space just like the others can control theirs.

You're now banned.

Do you, by some chance, mean c/ukraine on sopuli and people cheering to the real-life gore that keeps being posted there, and users getting banned for their ethical concerns about it?

e: It can be pointed out that it's even worse here than on platforms run by single companies. With those, the admins themselves will mostly not have a stake in the company but they themselves will be employees, which in theory would enable the company to hire ehtically vetted/trained personnel. Whereas here, the admins are likely be tech people who know how to run a server but might otherwise be overwhelmed with ethical conducting, or put their own political teint onto their platform, respectively. Lemmy has been deliberately set up in such a way.

Add to that the lack of good moderation tools. Many of the issues people are complaining about are prely technical, though; what is displayed in UI and database functionality. Such things could be solved though, by actually hiring some capable software developers (takes substantial funding), or by having it done bit by bit. Would there be enough people with enough faith in Lemmy to substantially contribute

It's a complete shit show everywhere.

Completely agree on this. In fact, my experience here has been worse than on Reddit. You just don't talk shit there about spez and you're pretty much golden. You'd have to piss a lot of people off to actually get banned.

Wasn't Lemmy supposed to solve this problem?

It was, but giving power to people seems to do the oposite... mostly true in every other social aspect of life as well.