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well thats alarming.
It’s less of an orangeboi-supportive statement, and more of a “I don’t like it when you neg on Russia >:(“ statement. But it’s no less of an idiotic position for that.
Soon this will be re🅱️🅱️it 2.0.
Except Reddit grants far more rights to individual users who are not instance admins than Lemmy does.
Reddit offers: notifications for when your content gets removed, modmail to ask questions why, Reddit admin appeal if that fails, the ability to continue commenting for months on content after it gets removed from the community feed (accessible to anyone at all with the URL, even if they were not part of the OG conversation), etc. PieFed has some of this too btw.
Whereas Lemmy is even more authoritarian minded than Reddit is! Again, not to instance owners, but to individual users. We even have our own fully automated moderation bots (e.g. look up santabot).
Lemmy.ml in particular already is leftist Reddit 2.0. Except without "advanced features" like polls, user and post flairs, multi-communities, and so on (PieFed has all of these btw).
Always has been meme.