Kinda funny; here on Lemmy they’re appreciated, while on Reddit we hated “power users” with a passion.
That said, I really do feel like the posters on Lemmy are trying their very best to provide interesting content, and they do this by fostering their chosen communities by hand. I’m a fan.
Here on Lemmy we know there’s no financial incentive, no perverse conflict of interests - just people who cared enough to build the infrastructure, maintain it, and provide service for others.
Yeah I had a realization that a lot of the things that used to bother me on reddit don’t worry me as much here. Something is fundamentally working better but I’m not sure what it is yet.
I wouldn’t say we appreciate all of them. Just depends on how they do it. If you post frequently that’s great. If you dump a dozen posts in under an hour on the other hand I think you’re an asshole. All it does is drown out communities. Leaves them dead.
On reddit there were powermods, who manipulate hundreds of subs by removing posts that made good karma and then reposting them themselves and removing any kind of unwanted discussion (backed by the admins).
On the fediverse, we have power users that seem to post a lot, but it’s mostly because nobody else wants to post for some reason (not counting news comms that use bots or scripted users to automatically post).
Sometimes a mod powertrips or we learn that someone is trying to manipulate a comm, so usually the instance owners just kick then out… And if it turns out they are backed by the owner, then people call it out and usually the instance gets defederated.
There are consequences in the fediverse, so mods/owners are usually more careful about it and the power posters don’t go around removing posts to pass then as their own to farm karma.
Kinda funny; here on Lemmy they’re appreciated, while on Reddit we hated “power users” with a passion.
That said, I really do feel like the posters on Lemmy are trying their very best to provide interesting content, and they do this by fostering their chosen communities by hand. I’m a fan.
Here on Lemmy we know there’s no financial incentive, no perverse conflict of interests - just people who cared enough to build the infrastructure, maintain it, and provide service for others.
Feels nice for sure.
Yeah I had a realization that a lot of the things that used to bother me on reddit don’t worry me as much here. Something is fundamentally working better but I’m not sure what it is yet.
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I wouldn’t say we appreciate all of them. Just depends on how they do it. If you post frequently that’s great. If you dump a dozen posts in under an hour on the other hand I think you’re an asshole. All it does is drown out communities. Leaves them dead.
On reddit there were powermods, who manipulate hundreds of subs by removing posts that made good karma and then reposting them themselves and removing any kind of unwanted discussion (backed by the admins).
On the fediverse, we have power users that seem to post a lot, but it’s mostly because nobody else wants to post for some reason (not counting news comms that use bots or scripted users to automatically post).
Sometimes a mod powertrips or we learn that someone is trying to manipulate a comm, so usually the instance owners just kick then out… And if it turns out they are backed by the owner, then people call it out and usually the instance gets defederated.
There are consequences in the fediverse, so mods/owners are usually more careful about it and the power posters don’t go around removing posts to pass then as their own to farm karma.