Just curious. I miss mainly language stuff, some video game communities (like RoN, KCD) and some local communities like for Arabs or Saudis (tbf those were always cesspits but I miss talking to other Arabs on Lemmy)
I’ll try to be the change I want to see. How about you?
I was actually wondering if you’re the same southsamurai from there. Your comments were always super detailed and informative. I also haven’t visited the sub in a while but it did have a culture of low/more chaotic moderation which I guess attracted similar users. Maybe we could do without that here.
That’s me :)
I always tried hard to be as accurate and honest as I could be without crossing lines. I still do, though it’s rare to run across stuff here that draws on the same set of experiences and reading that morbidquestions did.
The moderation actually improved a bit, imo. Reddit screwed up a lot of things, but they wiped out mods that had disappeared and got new ones in place that actively moderated. Or, that was my impression from conversations on discord and irl. I burnt out hard on the sub because of the spotty moderation, and then the api thing happened and I left reddit.
I still believe that forums like that are important. Not just as a safety valve for people, but to demystify some of the less pleasant subjects that people aren’t willing to talk about irl, and when they do, it’s hard to find good information. I’d love for a spot on lemmy to be active the way the sub was, and the way the discord sometimes is.