this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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[โ€“] clearleaf@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I first started using Lemmy, most of the front page was hate content. Lately it seems like less than 10% though.

[โ€“] InputZero@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I think that was just growing pains. It's unreasonable to expect a community as small as Lemmy was beforehand to immediately moderate itself like a large community when they grow as quickly as Lemmy did. It takes time to build the systems and fill positions. The amount of hate content has been dropping consistently. I barely see any hate posts and far fewer hate comments. Excluding when I make the mistake of treading into Hexbear but that's just cause I'm stupid sometimes.