automod filters made reddit an absolute nightmare. pouring my heart out on the depression sub and getting it removed because it didn’t have 300 characters or it was image post saturday or god knows what. you basically just don’t get to post on any sizable sub — before it was at least a lottery! post, see if people will like it! but now you can’t even get a post through!
there are 50 automod filters on everything, forbidden words or topics, perfectly good questions cast away to megathreads no one reads!
it’s a dire, awful landscape, and really terrible user experience, having something on your chest and wanting to post, but oh hey this won’t be posted until our ‘mod team’ ‘reviews’ it. isn’t that what voting is for? please stop treating me like a spambot or troll by default!
To be a little more accurate… I like the fact that each instance can decide what the rules are of what kinds of posts are allowed and what kind of behaviour is appropriate or not.
Some Lemmy communities and instances can have strict rules, some can be relaxed. It’s that freedom that I enjoy very much.
If you see “removed” here: removed
…you’re using lemmy.ml