Yeah it has been rough. Decade and a half old account, frequent poster, moderater, went out my way to be open minded.

Never a single ban, until two years ago:

One ban for catching someone lying, they were friends with the moderator I learnt later.
One ban for crypto facism I think it was? Why? Explaining to someone what a certain right wing political faction in the uk was and the upside to them being a protest vote to put pressure on current government to do better. Not even my views, was just devils advocating for someone elses opinion.

For reference I'm a left leaning libetarian, there was no argument involved, just a zealous moderator who seemed really young.

A ban on privacy sub for replying to someone who said something political, tbh, fair enough, caught a stray as did others yet can't fault the logic, just the punishment (perma so hot right now)

Last was on a literature subreddit where the moderator made some questionable changes, I and some others politely discussed the changes, were upvoted for it, that ruffled mods feathers and so we all got a permaban.

When you become a moderator on reddit they give you resources telling you how to act, what the goal is, etc

It became abundantly clear that reddit doesn't care to enforce that. It's all just words to feel nice.

Echo chambers, ragebait, tons of bots and fake interaction.

I just had to find an alternative and here we are. You can tell the quality of discussion is so much better here.

The point of Lemmy is an alternative to Reddit without the algorithmic bullshit, bot flooding or extreme moderation. There are plenty of other resons for Lemmy, so pick your poison.

Just stop interacting with Reddit completely. Trust me, you will he better for it. It's just a shadow of what it was and is just regurgitated bot slop that was sourced from Reddit to begin with.

That aside, I noticed "brain drain" in my favorite technical subs. Serious drain, as in "commenters haven't even read documentation," much less contributed any code.

Also, my favorite fandom subs have gotten more... echo chambery? Fanatic? Star Wars fandom-like, perhaps. They have a really shallow depth of knowledge now, but they treat it like gospel. Novels? Speculative lore/fanfics? No way, not anymore.

...Not that it matters.

I'm perma-shadowbanned on Reddit, for no discernable reason. And no recourse. So I'm certainly not contributing any expertise.

It's mostly the very popular subreddits that conflict is likely to be encountered, and where mostly the smart-aleck assholes come to congregate and try to pit themselves against another like in a PVP server.

I keep saying this when I was on Reddit: just avoid the front-page or just don't interact with anything from the front-page. It's full of immature folks looking for shallow dopamine hit.

I truly hope there's not a mass migration from Reddit to Lemmy in the future or it's just the beginning of the end for Lemmy as well.

I have a mixed feeling about this. On the one hand, I want to interact with more people and hear various perspectives and see more interests. I wish that the community that I was part of in Reddit could come here. But on the other hand, I agree that it could mean the same troglodytes will also flood Lemmy.

Yeah to be honest I was deluding myself for a long time, I mostly just answered questions and stuff there about software, audio, music, graphic design or talked about movies and music, I would rarely ever get a thank you or even an upvote for spending time to answer people. I know it's not the point, but it just suggests a pattern of rude behavior as a whole. I don't know why people feel the need to attack each other all the time, you can attack the ideas of the post or whatever, but now people have a tendency to make it personal right away. It's no good.