This allows actual, messy, contextualized moderation to happen within communities according to the values of those communities without creating broader distortions in a global moderation policy and enforcement scheme.

In other words there are unfortunately transphobic communities on Reddit and Lemmy, but the difference is there are also (many) communities on Lemmy that if you start spouting transphobic bullshit a moderator will unceremoniously and fairly quickly shut you down without a bunch of techbro handwringing about censorship or general apathy towards violence against trans people.

This aspect does in fact make Lemmy clearly better than Reddit on the whole, because this is a fundamental issue to social networks and communities.

[–] DingoBilly@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not sure I understand tbh. Seems exactly the same?

You get banned in a reddit community you can't access it, you get banned in a lemmy community you can't access it.

I've been banned from reddit communities and can still access reddit. If you've been banned from Reddit completely you must have done some terrible shit.

In your example, you're also suggesting a transphobic person has more scope on Lemmy to continue being transphobic than on Reddit. That's not a good thing?

I am quite confused by your post tbh.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You get banned from reddit as a whole and you're done, lemmy.world admin could ban me and I'd still have plenty of communities.

[–] DingoBilly@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Who gets banned from Reddit as a whole though?

You'd have to literally be posting child porn or something.

Or is this just a conceptual argument that doesn't actually mean anything in reality?

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

I'm not on reddit but people claim to be site banned for trivial things sometimes.