Nice! It’s so great to see my reddit niche faves slowly migrating.

The saddest thing is there’s gonna be some idiot, who believes this and starts spouting it of in all seriousness right afterwards.

Yeah that line was used by my abusers way to often. They just “can’t understand” why I’d go no contact. As if the last 300 explanations were somehow non existent. Nope. I don’t owe you anything.

And my old person trait is my walking stick I suppose.

I had a somewhat comparable thing happen. A sub blew up in a modgate. The mod claimed the user base was behaving like children and put us in a timeout (they locked the sub for a while). Then they took away any and all mechanisms for holding the mods accountable. So similar to spez’ approach in spirit.

The users who were upset eventually formed their own sub reddit, the original sub blocked the hell out of users and mentions of the new sub. Eventually the mods had an internal issue and … Came to the new sub to complain about other mods. After a while some newer mods from original sub kept coming over promising every rything and anything was in the works to improve things.

Initial reaction was distrusting, cautious, somewhat constructive and mostly friendly to the newer mods and rather unfriendly to the mods who tried to bring their internal drama to our new space. Eventually newer mods promises went nowhere and then the user base became A LOT more jaded towards newer mods.

In this example people had been shadow banned and abused in modmail, blocked without reason and so on. So the mods had personally and intentionally hurt many users. For reddit the scale is bigger and the pain for most of us isn’t that personal. So I’d hope the reception would be slightly warmer.

yeah I think the apps just aren’t there yet. I used connect for lemmy and today I’ve installed lemming which has the edit and block functions but looks clunky. can’t have it all I suppose.

a guide on how to use Lemmy would also be nice. I’m a former reddit user and I still haven’t figured out how to edit comments or block users.