My province’s official sub had essentially just become an echo chamber and literally was shadow banning and straight up just banning people who opposed the mods. It got really bad during the pandemic when they were simply banning people for even questioning some of the mandates and rules that didn’t make sense (not activax stuff, simply pointing out flaws in the rules and mandates).
Anyway, eventually an alternative sub was made. It got pretty big since basically everyone who was banned and everyone who didn’t want to browse what had essentially become a /r/Torontoleftists migrated over. It got pretty big, to the point it had come under the targets of a few subs simply cause the sub allowed for discussions to take place, regardless of political slant.
It was alot of fun. Users could actually explain why the felt how they felt and on occasion we’d even find ourselves conceding points or changing our stance on things after discussions.
It was when this sub and it’s successor were shut down by the neck beard brigade that I had already figured I’d probably take a step back from reddit and then the whole API bullshit happened and knew it was time.
I’ve been real happy with lemmy tho! I’m not the average user at all, but I still have fun.
The one for my city. Because of the small userbase and communities not spanning instances, I don’t see this changing and I accept that.
Nothing else specific comes to mind. I like nerdy tech stuff, there’s a lot of that here. But more variety of things outside that realm would be nice.
My province’s official sub had essentially just become an echo chamber and literally was shadow banning and straight up just banning people who opposed the mods. It got really bad during the pandemic when they were simply banning people for even questioning some of the mandates and rules that didn’t make sense (not activax stuff, simply pointing out flaws in the rules and mandates).
Anyway, eventually an alternative sub was made. It got pretty big since basically everyone who was banned and everyone who didn’t want to browse what had essentially become a /r/Torontoleftists migrated over. It got pretty big, to the point it had come under the targets of a few subs simply cause the sub allowed for discussions to take place, regardless of political slant.
It was alot of fun. Users could actually explain why the felt how they felt and on occasion we’d even find ourselves conceding points or changing our stance on things after discussions.
It was when this sub and it’s successor were shut down by the neck beard brigade that I had already figured I’d probably take a step back from reddit and then the whole API bullshit happened and knew it was time.
I’ve been real happy with lemmy tho! I’m not the average user at all, but I still have fun.