i liked lemmy but was put off by how mixed the quality was, and how many random images seemed to link to dubious image repos or otherwise set off malware alarms.
reddits heavy monetization means they at least try to keep out a majority of the bad actors but lemmy always seemed a wild west. perhaps i will revisit soon.
i dont know which instance you joined, but most lemmy doesnt encounter those links, you mustve went to a spam/botting part of lemmy. Each instance of lemmy is essentially its own little "Reddit". the ones you shouldnt join is ml, lemmygrad, or hexbear those are "far left" tankies.
Strange... I don't ever recall ever coming across an image linking somewhere outside of lemmy. Most people just upload images directly into their instance when creating posts.
In general never felt like I saw some dodgy link or anything nefarious
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i liked lemmy but was put off by how mixed the quality was, and how many random images seemed to link to dubious image repos or otherwise set off malware alarms.
reddits heavy monetization means they at least try to keep out a majority of the bad actors but lemmy always seemed a wild west. perhaps i will revisit soon.
i dont know which instance you joined, but most lemmy doesnt encounter those links, you mustve went to a spam/botting part of lemmy. Each instance of lemmy is essentially its own little "Reddit". the ones you shouldnt join is ml, lemmygrad, or hexbear those are "far left" tankies.
Strange... I don't ever recall ever coming across an image linking somewhere outside of lemmy. Most people just upload images directly into their instance when creating posts.
In general never felt like I saw some dodgy link or anything nefarious