True, can’t argue with that. I am maybe a bit too pragmatic when I say, I don’t care about the difference because the outcome for me as a user is the same.

See my other comment. That is not really the solution since you will simply get banned again after a while, depending on how much you interact there. Unless admin/moderation changes, making a new account just gives you a bit of extra time using those communities.

A little, sure, but from my point of view (which you are happy to disagree with), very little.

Personally I am a big Star Trek fan. I was stoked to see there is an actual dedicated Lemmy server for it, with many communities focused around everything Star Trek. But I disagree with their admin/moderation so much I had to change my account to another server. At some point ended up blocking the whole instance because I just cannot keep myself to just reading what others are posting.

So even if I can use another server, I cannot use those communities. Similar if I were a vegan and would not agree with what some of the more extreme users are posting.

There are not many active alternatives for these communities on Lemmy.

Well, exactly the same can and is happening on specific Lemmy servers too.

One of the vegan instances bans you if you downvote anything that speaks in favour of veganism. Not that I just do this out of spite, but there was this time where a thread about vegan cat food gained traction and I downvoted some comments that were really borderline. Ban within an hour.

Same on that notorious star trek instance. Go ahead and put some downvotes on Discovery related posts, it will also earn you a temporary ban.

So let’s not pretend that it’s only big bad reddit doing this.

Eh, I’m all for equality. Women can be racist too!

Shiiit, dat som tight proof. I retract my statement.

How would you know it thinks its another hippo? How about that it just needed a friend and found one?

The amount of boomer humor posts in this community is just baffling.

He certainly got the lobes for business.

That is not the point of making another browser.

You can set yourself anonymous on your account but then they also don’t allow you to see who visits you. Bit of bullshit I guess.

Woah, thanks!

Is that from some series or movie? So damn relatable.

Nestlé. Probably.

Eastern Germany has been voting differently pretty much all the time, or didn’t it? Like definitely more counties voted right wing for like a decade or two.

I was unprepared for this answer.

OK, this is going to be interesting… How did you prove it?

Can you selfhost a sync server? Be completely independent of them?

I think the big difference is that you can use it for free without any account needed, and all your data is stored locally in a format that remains accessible to alternative apps.

So the moment they start doing questionable stuff you are not a hostage to their app. There are alternatives, they are just not as nice as this currently.