I thought that it had evolved into a bot parliament.

It did. The moderation filters that are supposed to ban people for rule breaking are automated by bots and the appeals are also ran by bots. They made it so all accounts are tied to a single, making it so if you had alts to bypass the ban, they banned those too and don’t give you any time to appeal again.

There’s also too many things you can get banned for now and because it’s all automated now, Lemmy, is the last vestige of being able to speak your mind and there’s no hive mind here.

well not as ready to use their stingers here and down votes don’t mean shit here like at least if you’re down voted here, you’re not hidden into an oblivion and your comment shadow banned.

Reddit is a hive-mind bullshit area where if you don’t agree on everything you’re attacked in a way where if you retort to what could very well be be perceived as cyber bullying, you’re banned. If you retort to anything by speaking your mind, you’re banned or blocked from the community.

It’s full of pieces of shit, even the bass guitar community, it’s all people telling other people who go there for advice to go to another forum or identifying bass guitars that google lens can figure out by model number.