OpenStars

Oh wow you are fast - I just commented with the identical example. :-)

Fwiw, Blaze I’m sure was saying that the recourse could be to post the infraction there, so that people become aware of a “power tripping bastard”, i.e. the lemmy.world mod hypothetical example mentioned earlier.

Multiple times communities have been shifted from one instance to another due to precisely this effect. A recent example is how !lotrmemes@midwest.social now has an alternative !lotrmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com to help people get out from under the heel of the power tripping admin of that particular instance (described in a recent post in the !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com community).

Well, I am not saying that the scenario is a perfect match, just that it reminded me of that:-).

Though to answer your question, if Reddit were all AI slop whereas we were not, then they would be foolish to not exploit (for moar profitz) the source of legitimately true info that could be useful to answer people’s questions, e.g. on topics such as whether and how to use Arch Linux btw. :-P

Reminds me of this one:

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I find it the height of irony that you have submitted this duplicate post to both of these “c/Fediverse” communities:-). This is the very type of thing that is going to confuse people. Like “why is there a @CyberTailor@beehaw.org, a @CyberTailor@Lemmy.World, a @CyberTailor@lemmynsfw.com and others, but they might be the same person - and yet they might not - and then some of them post to !Fediverse@lemmy.world, while others may post to !Fediverse@lemmy.ml - so like users then, are those also the same person? or community or whatever? Or are they always different ones, and if communities are always different, then why aren’t the users always different too?”

Face it, the experience on Lemmy.World is close to that of the centralized Reddit, but everywhere else it is not even close. e.g. my post here has 193 upvotes (and 2 downvotes), while the original says 186, but here it only has 98, and here it has none, nor any comments either.

We are a loose federation of instances - we are virtually nothing like any email system that I have ever used, where various portions of the same message show up - or not - depending on which email system you try to access the same message from (afaik, that’s not even a thing - you have the sender and the recipient and that’s it?). The reason people struggle to understand the email analogy, imho, is bc it doesn’t work, and we should go back to the loose federation of instances idea bc that’s what we truly are.

MrKaplan mentioned that there were a ton of “spam communities”, so possibly they have since been removed. They weren’t real anyway. https://lemmy.world/comment/13613002.