So, I got site-wide banned from reddit a while ago due to using the word “purge” on a post and since then I have been using Lemmy more and more. However, one thing that I have noticed is that Lemmy is less active than reddit.
For example, the most comments I have seen a post get is 200, where in reddit I’m confident it would get much more.
yeah, this place as liek 1/10000th the userbase. the problem with this site is there are few people who are active and they are active about the same boring issues over and over, that got them kicked off reddit. it’s annoying seeing the same 6 accounts spamming communities here.
not that reddit is really worthwhile anymore, the content is very manicured now, but it is still at least diverse. and yeah, part of that is the ridiculous auto-banning over ‘bad’ words regardless of where or how they appear on the site. in 2026, reddit will bad you for saying ‘purge my garden of weeds’ as ‘inciting violence and hate’, which i guess, yeah it kinda is… because apparently weeds are a persecuted identity or something?
anyway, you’ll get banned her too if you offend whatever mod or site admin. don’t worry. generally though you can’t be banned from the fediverse. all my bans so far on fedi have been from news communities where I was challenging a dominant overly simplistic narrative and the single mod thought that was ‘hate speech’.
Amazing answer. Thank you very much for your answer and anecdotes, it’s very helpful.