Not necessarily better, due to lack of enforceable centralized moderation policy a lot of morally grey or dark communities and instances exist, and it is more susceptible to bots.
Reddit was so absolutely massive compared to current Lemmy that it naturally did have more niches.
There are literally multiple Lemmy communities promoting youthful pornographic imagery, if not outright child pornography, so mentioning that Reddit had a scandal over the same content which they then proceeded to shutdown definitely isn’t an argument in Lemmy’s favor.
We also have militant extremist communities and advocacies for foreign dictatorships here, like all of Hexbear for example.
100% has different cultures, however:
Not necessarily better, due to lack of enforceable centralized moderation policy a lot of morally grey or dark communities and instances exist, and it is more susceptible to bots.
Reddit was so absolutely massive compared to current Lemmy that it naturally did have more niches.
You got an example?
Centralized modding permitted jailbait on reddit… Which can easily be a crime…
There are literally multiple Lemmy communities promoting youthful pornographic imagery, if not outright child pornography, so mentioning that Reddit had a scandal over the same content which they then proceeded to shutdown definitely isn’t an argument in Lemmy’s favor.
We also have militant extremist communities and advocacies for foreign dictatorships here, like all of Hexbear for example.