Smaller community size. It is a lot easier to moderate a small community instead of a large one.

It is also the reason why Reddit moderators fought the API ban. Reddit moderators had developed their own tech stack to help them moderate the very large subs. Lemmy isn't at the size where those tools are needed.

Well, they'll sometimes tell you a reason you got a ban, but not the reason you got a ban.

The public modlog is one of the best features of Lemmy, IMO. When a Lemmy user appeals to the public of stuff mods/admins have done, we can call BS on them since we can read through stuff if they've been toxic, or if it's the mods on a power-trip, or if it's controversially borderline but reasonable discretion given the circumstances.

Yeah ₙₒ. The few times I’ve been banned or had my comment removed on reddit, I was told that it happened. On Lemmy, the reason listed is just as obscure and esoteric, but you have to seek it out yourself to even find out it happened

Reddit banned me for a comment that they interpreted as pro Hamas, but never came out and said it, despite the “check your inbox” banner.

Reddit will tell you why you were banned. It generates a PM with the reason and a link to the offending post.

For example, I was banned for inciting violence towards a protected group of people… in reference to saying child predators should face stiffer legal penalties. Someone took it the wrong (or maybe right) way because their president is in the Epstein files. Honestly I wasn’t even thinking of him but if the prison jumpsuit fits… anyway, it was not a mystery to me.

I did appeal in case AI flagged me but a human upheld it.

But as to why Lemmy is better in that regard… more open platform trying to improve upon the formula of those that came before. Also run by people not corporations. And not operated by the GOP.

Because Lemmy is moderated by human beings.

Give it time. Lemmy will become like Reddit given enough use base and time. It’s inevitable.

i was just banned for "multiple violations" like 1min ago but they didn't say what i did.

Think of Reddit as Cyberpunk or Mirror's Edge: a world controlled by corporations instead of governments. A corporation only seeks its own interests and those of its shareholders. In that world, you're nothing. There's no transparency, and you don't have any rights.

Lemmy instances on the other hand are run by the community and funded by donations. As such, the interests of the group as a whole prevail; they are not the interests of shareholders. To maintain cohesion, transparency is necessary, hence the modlog. Without transparency, cohesion and community cannot be maintained.

Reddit and Lemmy are two completely different worlds.

I got banned from jai.lu, reason "reactionary"

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That's very subjective.

Both platforms have the option for mods to tell you exactly what you did wrong; and on both, sometimes they utilize that option sometimes they don't.

It's entirely up to the individual mods in each specific community.

Lemmy does generally tend to be a bit more open; just because it's a growing platform looking to expand its userbase, so the mods make a bit more of an effort to create peace/understanding vs just ban hammering any problems into oblivion.

Reddits grown big enough that it can throw its weight around a bit carelessly and have less worry of the userbase collapsing.

fewer ppl, more time

Sometimes it's a tactic to discourage escalation because it adds confusion.

There's no central authority forcing things to be one way or the other, so to the extent that there are differences they are cultural in nature.

I'd assume the biggest reason, in addition to what others have said, is the difference in user numbers. It's a lot easier to be a good mod at this scale than at the massive scale of Reddit, especially with the rampant AI bots, and without powerful tools like defederation, the clearly visible mod log, etc.

I'd assume most people bothering to moderate, even on Reddit, intend to do a good job with every report, but being overworked forces people's hand.