Here are some specific questions.

  • Are the upvotes and downvotes I make, private? If I report a comment, is my report private?

  • Can someone follow me across lemmy instances based on my username?

  • If I want to make a community, is there a reason I would choose one lemmy over another?

  • Are the powers of moderators similar to reddit’s?

  • Where can I find a list of most active lemmy instances?

  • Any other differences from reddit I should know about?

  • The_wild_card@lemmy.ml
    1·
    8 months ago

    Are the powers of moderators similar to reddit’s?

    As everyone has given proper answers for all other questions i’ll answer this one . No here moderators come under admins and that wasn’t a thing on reddit.

    • Ashy@lemmy.wtf
      8·
      8 months ago

      moderators come under admins and that wasn’t a thing on reddit.

      That is exactly how it was on reddit.

        • Ashy@lemmy.wtf
          5·
          8 months ago

          But it was. It’s literally the exact same hierarchy of roles. So no, I don’t know what you mean.

          • The_wild_card@lemmy.ml
            1·
            8 months ago

            Well does every community on reddit come under different admin rules like on lemmy ? Does reddit have a problem where if you don’t agree with instance admins beliefs or actions you can get banned ?

            • Ashy@lemmy.wtf
              6·
              8 months ago

              Every server is under the total control of it’s admin while moderators are self-assigned to communities by the users that created them. It’s literally the exact same structure as on reddit.

              The only difference is that there only is a single reddit server with a single set of admins, while lemmy has many instances.

              So yes, everything you mentioned is basically the same on both platforms. The only difference on lemmy being that when you piss off the admins and get banned you can go to another instance.

              • The_wild_card@lemmy.ml
                1·
                8 months ago

                Nah i mean the reddit admins follow a standard rule structure because they are corporate workers and does’nt insert themselves it is like moderation on any sites but in the fediverse its different.

                • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
                  3·
                  8 months ago

                  Lemmy admins create rule structures for the same reason Reddit admins do, they are doing high level curation of the communities they want.

                  You’re right in that there isn’t the firewall between moderators and admins on Lemmy that there was on Reddit, but that was a choice that Reddit admins made, not a design difference between the two services.

                  • The_wild_card@lemmy.ml
                    1·
                    8 months ago

                    No reddit admins can’t push their agenda because they were employees here that is not the case and i am not saying that is a bad thing

                • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  8 months ago

                  A lot of people left reddit because of the way admins were inserting themselves into communities. There is a different dynamic here.