From purely practical point of view, what is the selling point of Lemmy for the average user who does not care about the theoretical benefits of software or the open source software movement?

Assumptions:

  • The average user will never host a instance.
  • The average user is not interested in volunteering or moderation.
  • The average user is not looking for NSFW communities or any controversial communities.
  • Nytixus@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 days ago

    I’ve moderated subreddits, I’ve moderated chat rooms and have had managerial experiences in other things over the years online.

    People hated me moderating because I ‘took out the trash’ that people, including other moderators, considered the life of a community. People being meme shitlords, people trolling, people gaslighting, people instigating matters .etc

    And they all got by because of friendly nepotism and shitty comradery among shitty people who love other shitty people.

    I’m not the kind of moderator that I see in most moderators now, who have a brain aneurysm over some expressions and thoughts that they see others express that they deliberately misinterpret. All so that they can construct their self-justifying reasons to ban over.

    And that is power-tripping, to me.