It looks like I will be the main moderator of this community for the time being, and I intend to remove any comments calling for violence or murder. In many circumstances that wouldn’t have to be explicitly stated, but here we are.

I will try to keep the comments free of divisive political topics, but the memes themselves will be allowed to reference contemporary events, so long as they are funny.

I have faith that neither the admin nor the users will cause any undue problems. My hope is that this community will be a light to us all in dark places, even when all other lights go out.

Thanks man. I’ve always given you credit for that. Or at least I remember specifically mentioning you in a couple of comments when I was lambasting the majority of reddit mods and pointing to you as the shining example of someone who stuck to their guns and did what was necessary.

Tbh I didn’t realize until now that feddit.de originated from r/ich_iel mods, nor that aussie.zone originated from r/Melbourne mods. That might have something to do with you naming the instance after yourself 😅

But seriously, you’re a legend and you have done so much for Lemmy. I donate to you on liberapay but it’s far less than you deserve.

How would the users message mods directly when the modlog just says “mod”? They could message each one directly, or mass spam all at once, but in general the tools are highly biased to protect mods rather than grant power to the content creators.

Message one mod who seems active or all the mods at once if you lack patience. Message an admin if the mods don’t respond. It’s not rocket science.

On Reddit - which I haven’t used since practically the Rexodus so am definitely not shilling for it here - after a post is removed, people can still continue to discuss things in it. So[…] With no recourse to do much of anything except complain.

This is false. Any comment that you made in the thread still exists in your profile. I’m not sure why you’re lying about this.

It’s very apparent that you are despairing and miserable. Have you considered that your negativity and that of people like you is more responsible for the failure of this platform to grow than any of the minor complaints you continuously harp on? You’re either an absolute fool or a reddit shill to constantly be arguing that users on Lemmy have less rights than they do on reddit. That is complete and utter nonsense, users on reddit have ZERO rights. Z. E. R. O.

By all means, contribute on github or make some constructive suggestions for features, but to constantly harp on the lack of features for a platform with a small underpaid dev team is just extremely entitled and negative behavior, and helps absolutely no one. It creates a toxic climate on Lemmy for absolutely no reason.

Or go use all the great PieFed communities with their perfect moderators. Oh wait, they don’t exist. The only way for me to understand your constant, pointless attacks and trivial complaints against the only viable alternative to reddit right now is to conclude that you are in fact a reddit shill. Otherwise it doesn’t make any sense to me why you would be acting this way.

Lemmy isn’t perfect. Constantly bitching about it while contributing nothing isn’t making it any better.

Nice list

Nobody is arguing that and it’s irrelevant to my comment. You’re simply pointing out the fact that Lemmy moderation tools are not yet full featured, which is unsurprising given we are still in alpha. This is a completely different criticism than the criticism of authoritarianism which I was defending against.

Please stop responding to every single comment I make, if you wouldn’t mind. I’ve had to reply to you like 50 times over the past week. I’ll let you do your thing and you let me do mine.

By the time people were moving to Lemmy, the damage was already done. If anything, you’re arguing that the mods helped save reddit from a larger exodus by disrupting the migration? You seem confused.

Just wait until you find out that the admins have been keeping all the blackjack and hookers to ourselves 🤫

Dessalines told us it was okay because we were the vanguard party.

Oh I thought it was a Dick Cheney joke, I guess that’s the American version though. It actually made perfect sense to me even without the double meaning.

Lol nah it was TheDude who started the instance, I’ll have to check with him about that and get back to you

You seem to have misunderstood, it’s the person who started the community who is supposed to provide the blackjack and hookers 😅

You inspired me to do a bit more digging. I found the page on world population review.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/reddit-users-by-country

Which lists this site as the true source. Looks pretty legit to me. Seems to be a paid service.

https://www.semrush.com/website/reddit.com/overview/

They’ve got US traffic listed around 51% for December 2024, so it’s actually gone up significantly compared to the March 2023 figures cited by world population review

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/reddit-traffic-report-march-2023pdf/257621808

Went from 2.32 billion US visits in March 23 to 3.17 billion in December 24, while Indian visitors actually declined significantly in the same period.

PieFed is highly promising, but I wish you didn’t feel the need to go overboard with criticizing Lemmy. Calling Lemmy a more authoritarian version of reddit… that’s a pretty wild take.

That’s like calling tribal societies more authoritarian than Stalinist or fascist states. There’s no such thing as low-level authoritarianism, that doesn’t make any sense. The users can message the mods directly, and they can go as they wish and do as they please. It’s like calling the nuclear family unit authoritarian, it becomes a nonsensical concept when applied to human-scale social organization. It refers to large scale social units such as nations and political parties, not small groups of freely associated individuals like Lemmy.

You’re still stuck in the reddit mindset where there isn’t anywhere else to go, everything is contained in one closed box controlled by spez. On Lemmy you can go and build your own box, and there are already dozens to choose from that are free and open to join.

Yoink

Grabbing that for future reference. That’s the stats from 2024? Is there like a link to the actual source? Significantly more US-centered then I thought, especially since one would assume the numbers were even more skewed 5-10 years ago.

Lemmy is much more weighted towards an international userbase in my experience, which can be frustrating for the American audience at times, but also has its benefits.

Or to start a better version of a community with blackjack and hookers.

I see your point, but it wasn’t really the reddit mods that killed reddit, it was the admins selling out to corporate greed

Just to clarify, as far as I understand, this LOTR meme community and the mods here were not directly involved in that incident. I believe the comment was made on a different community on the Midwest.social instance, and removed by the instance admin.

I understand that you’re in favor of it and I see your point, but I just wanted to clarify the language. Especially with people talking about new users coming to Lemmy, its important to help them understand how it all fits together.

There’s no such thing as a community admin, an admin is basically supervising the entire server/instance (midwest.social), and community moderators run individual communities (such as !lotrmemes@midwest.social) that are hosted on a particular server/instance.