But that said, I can understand it. We have to remember that where features are concerned, we're not even close to Reddit. The reason to migrate here is mostly an ideological one (from disagreement with the Reddit admins' actions) and perhaps some future potential.

Reddit still has far more functionality, including vastly better modding tools (which are extremely lacking here -- beehaw defederated from some of the biggest instances because they lacked any other tools for dealing with users), better uptime, vastly better UX (there's soooo many meta posts every day from people confused by the poor UX), support for videos, larger communities, more developed apps (we only have early stage alphas here), etc. All these things are barriers that will make some users write off Reddit alternatives as simply not good enough (yet).

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Absolutely. The mod tools aren't ready for anything but friendly friend spaces for friends. I had someone join my small, single purpose Lemmy site that I didn't even think someone would find and join a bunch of subs I didn't want cluttering the feed, and I couldn't even remove them without going to the database they didn't post anything.

And this is fine if you're just making a wide open general purpose forum. If people aren't causing specific issues, you don't need to know they're there. But if you're doing something specific...

On the other hand, if 100 bots has signed up and just sat there quiet, I wouldn't have been able to do anything about them until they were flooding the forum, and that's really not great.