You summarized my experience / feelings on the matter perfectly.

A few of the reddit mods were so obnoxious, they would ban you for posting to other subs they didn’t like. Even if you had never been to their stupid sub or cared about it, you would get a random ban notification from some wacky niche sub.

On the one hand: who cares. But on the other hand: it doesn’t feel like a very welcoming place when you check the site for the first time that day and some weirdo has banned you “because reasons”.

I even saw one mod that would stalk individual users and mock them for getting banned from his precious sub. It was so absurd.

As for the typical users of reddit: I know it’s a tired cliché…but it really was like a “hive mind” over there.

It also has a horrible new user experience. To get some basic level of karma you have to jump through hoops. The whole thing feels like a nasty reindeer game.

I’m really glad lemmy doesn’t have karma.