I was just reading this post https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1gmv76n/is_reddit_going_to_remain_the_primary_space_for/ and many barely see the fediverse as an alternative and they seem to have a negative bias towards it. Super ironic when it comes to the self-hosting community. Yes, some instances are problematic, yes, some devs might have had problematic views. But it doesn't really matter when it's federated and FOSS. I think it's clear-cut that the selfhosting community on Lemmy is a perfect alternative to reddit. Why is there such a negative bias?

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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Honestly, in my experience since I fully moved to Lemmy:

Almost any subreddit is more mature than any Lemmy channel.
This isn't just number of users (but that's a huge problem that has been mentioned here a lot), it means that the chance you'll run into a mod who is a tinpot despot is pretty high, and there is nothing you can do about it if you're not willing to sit alone in a ~~ghost town~~ alternate community.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

there is nothing you can do about it

You can just post from a different lemmy instance.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

That doesn't remove the toxic mod.

How many alts and sock puppets do you think the average person should have? This doesn't sound healthy