Then the question is, why is it when users come from reddit they don’t hang around? they don’t tell their friends, hey this is a place that’s awesome!

Some do. I would argue that most social media websites sign-ups become dormant accounts very quickly. Whether its Reddit, a large Discord server, a reddit alternative etc. The retainment rate of most social media sites is and has always been quite bad. People are fickle, or not as interested as they thought, or just sign up to have a better look. I don’t think there’s anything special about Lemmy or Piefed here, and advertising it isn’t exactly easy nor even welcome.

Does Lemmy/Piefed have the best design? No. Is it uniquely bad? Not at all. I think Reddits is pretty poor in areas, but that doesn’t seem to be an encumbrance to it.

It’s slowly declining. I don’t think it has anything to do with usability, or lack of - but simply that these platforms usually get boosted by Reddit doing a scandal rather than anything else.

Communities are organised by activity on Piefed, so you can see what people are using.

Tbh, and I plan to do this for piefed.social soon (and rimu has given me the go-ahead) - abandoned discarded communities with literally zero posts need to be purged by instances. It’s just clutter.

If a community was active and then isn’t, that’s fine, but a lot of communities are made and then never used.

It freezes a lot, the search is awful, messages just stop loading forcing a restart, verification is a joke

Too bad Matrix is just terrible.

There isn’t a decent Discord alternative rn

I live in the UK. Being against the UK government is not considered a mental illness.

That’s not what they meant. You suggested that people who criticise the USSR automatically ignore human rights abuses from the USA (specifically - to black people). This is a baseless claim. How do you know that everyone who highlights USSR human rights abuses ignores USA human rights abuses?

When did the USA, in the last 50 years section people for dissent?

Public downvoting already negates the amount of downvotes here relative to reddit. I see no reason why the modlog doesn’t also serve the same function, dissuading mods from blatant abuse that would tank their reputation and potentially get them removed as community owners.

I haven’t noticed posts derailing off-topic anymore than I have on reddit.

What automated things did Reddit do here exactly in relation to the mod log?

I mean the presence itself likely keeps moderators more honest that they might be on reddit. That isn’t to say the modlog is designed perfectly (it isn’t). But it’s far better than what Reddit has (nothing).

It’s a lot less likely. Instance owners are closer to the management of the communities than Reddit admins are. Many would not accept it and remove moderators like that from their communities.

https://piefed.social/topics

I think you can unsubscribe from whatever topics you subscribed to here, and it should auto-unsubscribe you from those communities.

That’s because google is scraping comment threads, not user profiles.

But in any case? Good. Reddit allowing people to hide public profiles is bad. It has made it easier to troll, to astrotrurf and abuse people on there.

But on Reddit it’s just as easy to make your own new sub with a different name.

Depends on the subreddit. Many topics have what would be-called natural names that people naturally look for. Suppose you don’t like how r/television is ran. What are you gunna do? Make your own? What you gunna call it? r/tv-shows? Maybe (but that’s also already taken). r/television2? r/bettertelevision?

Also, how are you gunna effectively advertise it? Reddit is way too big for a new small communtiy in most cases, unless it directly sources from another large community.

You see the uphill problem here?

@[email protected] See!? SEE?!

Lol, I’ve specifically directly bought this up in conversations about this. Don’t worry. I don’t think the auto-subscribing to all the communities in a topic is a good idea.

So what a new user is presented with are topics, not feeds. The only difference is that topics are handled at the instance level - by site admins - and have more visibility and populate the “Related Communities” feed. Where-as feeds are the same thing, but user-made. Click here to see them.

You can make feeds containing specific communities on piefed that would combine all like-for-like communities.

That is indeed true. Only issue I can see is the copycat community might not outgrow the older community. And I think people tend to gravitate towards the larger community if there are multiples of them.

Thankfully the Fediverse designates community size by active users per week/month/etc when you look them up. Piefed specifically does this. You can’t even see the overall subscribers in the community browser. So this levels the playing field somewhat.

Eh, they’d likely be directly told that @[email protected] is losing it rather than manually checking the local logs.

Yes, that is the benefit of federation, but the downside is that if a user is forcibly removed from participation in a community they liked, it won’t really matter that they created a new one if they can’t tell the users in the old community to migrate.

Well this is true - on an individual user level. But I am talking about a situation where a mod team (or even just 1 moderator) is so bad, so hated that enough of the userbase for that community get fed up - they could just make their own and use tools like [email protected] or [email protected] to advertise what they’re doing (this does work).

Obviously if it’s just you aggrieved with how a community is run, you’ll find it much harder. But that’s true anywhere.

Speaking as a moderator (even though I don’t really do much on a low traffic community), if a mod bans specific users because they don’t like those users, that’s an abuse of power. But that abuse of power will largely go unchecked because it isn’t big enough of a problem for most users to take issue with, usually.

Oh absolutely, and it’s not realistic to expect administrators of medium to high level instances to micro-manage and oversee all moderator decisions within their instance. But I imagine if you lost the plot on your [email protected] community and started banning people for frivolous infractions, you’d be credibly replaced by a competing community in relative short-order and I would imagine its more likely that the lemmy admins would remove you eventually.