In addition to that, with how many posts there are asking the same question(s) nearly daily (in specific subs), reddit feels more like threaded chat instead of a forum.

I feel bad for anyone not in a USA-consonant time zone; you wake up every morning to a bunch of dead threads. It's bad enough when I'd get up early and start posting commenting that got buried in the 9am rush.

I love the itch of seeing my comments get upvotes. 👀let's get this comment to 100 upvotes ->

Yeah when you get three rogues in a community and you know exactly who it was haha

And then one day there's a fourth upvote and you're like what? someone new? a stranger??

it is mostly propaganda AI bots, and Bots promoting thier own traffic to thier own sub/or site now.

By the time id get to a post everyone is already on the third repeat of earlier comments. Theres no point in even bothering.

At least on the private voting front, piefed has a feature, at least on the website, where if you long press(/ right click? ) the voting arrows ,you get options for either local or federated votes.

also !showerthoughts@lemmy.world and the various chat communities (there's one for almost every instance)

technically the activitypub protocol should allow it, but i think lemmy hasn't implemented it. it should work if you follow a lemmy account from mastodon though. i haven't tested it but in theory it should work.

At least on piefed, there's a sort of similar mechanism, where you choose to get notifications from specific people.

E: I'm on the Web UI, I'm not sure if a similar feature is available on other apps

Some apps have this feature, even if it's not part of Lemmy itself.

On mbin, following is easy too. Dunno about lemmy.

Maybe a year or two ago, reddit gave the option for people to hide their comment and post history in their profile. It gave people a false sense of security, because you could still pull up a smattering of their history by searching their user name, and also there's third party mirrors....

I eventually turned it on because it's not unusual to have someone go through your history to find ways to insult/discredit you, often taking you completely out of context.

I eventually settled on a hybrid--I allowed comments on the more anodyne subs through, so people would see a history and not accuse me of being a bot, and it would discourage them from searching because they would likely see a bunch of boring comments about cats and give up.

It's simply a ban you're not notified/aware of. You can still log in and post, but no one can see your activity

A shadowbaned comment is a comment you wrote that only you can see. You are not notified that it has been removed. You are not notified that nobody can see it. The only way you know it's shadowbanned is if the viewcount is suspiciously low, and the only way to be certain is to log out to see if you can view the comment outside your account.

There's an extension (reveddit?) available which will notify you when a comment has been shadowbanned.

A user can be shadowbanned from a subreddit by the subreddit mods, or from the entirety of reddit by the admins. Most of my experience was with shadowbanned comments.

I've been permanently banned from plenty of subreddits, but only shadowbanned by one sub. I called them cowards in a mod mail and requested a full ban instead. In return, they reported me for bullying. I received a seven-day ban and came to lemmy. I remain shadowbanned in that community.

Also: fuck Israel.

nobody can see your posts or account at all. it was originally reserved for serial spammers, botters. but now it includes almost anyone they think its a bot, because thier AI cant really tell anyone. secondly a shadowban also wont inform you that you were banned, and what you were banned for. it was originally an excuse to combat botters, spammers. it now it obfuscates thier AI as the sole cause of your ban.

with sitewide bans, people can just wait until sometime has passed and us another account(before the purges last year). apparently with shadowbans they lockdown your IP, DEVICE, fingerprinting much more aggressively than a sitewide ban. because as soon as you try to make a new account an comment they almost know immediately.