However, when reddit crapped the bed, by comparison, the threadiverse basically didn’t have an established culture. There was a handful of lemmy instances (we were one of them), but the only one of notable size was lemmy.ml. kbin didn’t even exist in any meaningful way until a couple of months before reddit died.
So, when reddit died, there was no established culture. Instead, people brought reddit culture with them, and reddit culture, because of lax admins, was much more tolerant of hate speech than microfedi. And so, people who are “reddit people” more than “fediverse people” set up lemmy and kbin instances, and brought those reddit norms with them.
So then, you get instances like blahaj and beehaw that are threadiverse instances, but have the “old school” microfedi approach to bigotry. We smash it down hard at the first hint of seeing it, but most of the instances we federate with don’t attack it so aggressively.
It’s not “reddit culture”, IMO, it’s just human nature. Small groups are different from large groups and we’ve got large groups here now.
@FaceDeer Do we? Or do we have lots of small groups in the same space?
It does seemthat Mastodon culture is different to Threadiverse culture. I’m OK with that, Mastodon is a little earnest for my tastes. It would be nice if we could keep the worst of Reddit out of here with robust moderation
There were plenty of smaller subreddits with distinct “cultures” over on Reddit as well. As you say, moderation is key. Moderation is a lot easier for smaller communities.
Thankfully never had direct interactions whit unsavoury types , but sadly there’s unsavoury mags out there when looking through modlog
They’re documented here , am just focusing on ones on our instance (kbin.social) . Hope it takes similar moderation approach !
Directly on kbin, no. But through kbin on Lemmy.world I’ve already met several trolls, tankies and a wumao.
Edit: Nevermind, one of the trolls is indeed on kbin.social.
