Feels smaller and more cozy to me.
Thats the biggest issue I DON’T like about Lemmy. I want everyone in the world on the fediverse.
I like a large userbase myself, would prefer it to be larger than it is, but if everyone showed up tomorrow, it’d collapse. We’d see scaling problems that hadn’t been anticipated, anti-spam/anti-abuse systems wouldn’t have had time to adapt, etc.
Takes time with problems gradually appearing and becoming more serious and solutions showing up to deal with them.
Yeah we’ve have 1 Influx and the result was we retained a pretty decent userbase. I think the next influx will be even better for lemmy.
Same
A distinct lack of Monetization/ads
Lemmy is also not tracking the sites you visit. Everytime you click on a link on reddit, you’re redirected through out.reddit.com.
Worry not, ads still appear, tho we ban them relatively quickly.
I recognise usernames, so it feels like conversations between people are happening rather than just throwing stuff out there for it to be ignored.
Other thing is there are small communities with 1-2 mods so you know them and they aren’t usually “the superuser” that mods 10 different communities.
I don’t say there are none of them, just that it is usually small and you recognize the mod that just steer his small community.
When I joined reddit, it was at least a year—probably 3 years—before I was banned from a subreddit—r/AskReddit. I’ve been here little more than a year and I’ve not only been banned from a notable community here, but when I asked to be unbanned—once, then letting perhaps a few weeks pass, then twice—I got no reply.
(and I’m not going to ask a 3rd time, but will simply create a [community-I-was-banned-from]2.)
Was it hexbear/.ml?
Commenting on a post doesn’t feel like yelling into a void, comments are more than a number here. Also people are always trying to be helpful, which is so nice compared to reddit.
mods can suck, admins can suck, but you can go off and start your own instance, with blackjack and hookers.
I also like that I can see that someone is posting from hexbear, and I can disregard their comment. It saves time.
Yeah the instancing makes malicious users much harder to come by, and easy to hide for sure.
Same reason I joined here, plus most users on Reddit are just bots at least in here you can tell who’s a bot and who’s real and you can tell which comments to agree or disagree with and which to ignore based on the instance lol, it’s way easier and friendlier here tbh I was banned for violent comments on Reddit mainly because the hive mind there are mostly removed but in here I can say Fuck Reddit, it was good once before the coronavirus now it’s just a piece of shit.
It would not surprise me to find out 50%+ of Reddit activity is bots at this point
I was banned for violent comments on Reddit
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Yeah! Violence rules!
By the users, for the users. Almost all they instance admins are just like everyone else. We just know some it infrastructure.
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It’s not constantly being tweaked and reworked to look and perform worse for the sake of profit.
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Fewer fascists
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Fewer people who are completely illiterate and can’t follow a conversation that’s already laid out in an easy to read format.
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Community rules are not so bloated that only the mods and their friends can make top level posts in the biggest communities.
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3rd party clients
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Less fake accounts, less political censorship, less trolls, and less bad faith argument clowns.
Of course this opinion is only accurate to the reality if you’re spiritually from .ml or hexbear.
Folks can’t seem to deal with outside perspectives very well and consequently love to swing that banhammer.
They’re here though, more by the day.
My suspicion is that there are a few instances either controlled by bad actors or indifferent to them. Blocking those can make lemmy a much better place if you aren’t interested in conflict on this platform.
And if you enjoy arguing or just want to hone your debate skills against trolls, you can do that, of course.
Not owned by corpos
I know it’s arguably part of why it’s intimidating to your average newcomer but I adore that it’s mostly nerdy techies lol. I’m so used to dropping something vaguely technical and being met with the online equivalent of blank stares so people being willing and able to engage with that sort of thing is super nice!
I don’t think it is only techy nerds, I am a granny and much prefer Lemmy. I no longer feel nervous when posting here at all as people are polite and are actually interested in discussion rather than simply arguing. And the premise that there can never be only one person in control is refreshing.
Oh I don’t think it’s all techies, but they definitely make up a good chunk of the userbase. Hard agree on it feeling more chill too, I’d been kinda afraid to comment anything on reddit before I left.
Early Reddit – I was on when it was one page and a large amount of the content was directly posted by spez and company, was mostly talking about stuff that they cared about, like Lisp and Linux and startups – was somewhat similar. More of a university focus and didn’t have the economically-far-left, furry, or LGBT crowds prominent, so not the same, but some decided similarities.
Good point, I didn’t get into reddit that early but it definitely rings familiar
Ive read so many amazing detailed tech posts. It feels like a treat to read some of the threads started here. I think my favorite post was a blog going into detail on what swap was. I and many others had been completely wrong about swap and it was a joy to read how it worked and why it was a default on so many linux systems.
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One thing I love here is how I can disagree with someone and still have a civil discussion. It feels weirldy amazing to reach a consensus instead of just getting stuck in a cycle of unrelated personal insults. Sure, shitheads like that do still exist here, but I don’t remember ever having a civil disagreement/argument on Reddit.
I also feel that I’ve embraced the practice of blocking & moving on a lot more after I moved here, and tried my best to be more constructive.
In general, people are more willing to call out misinformation and present nuanced takes. I much prefer that. Reddit has recently become a cesspit of ragebait and misinformation.
I post something and actually get quality engagement. Just did an asklemmy post a few days ago and got tons of good advice thanks to everybody here!
It has a smaller community, which makes it easier to recognize people.
The percentage of linux users is also great.
Feels like I’m talking to normal people again,
I went on a bit of a rant during a recent low point personally, but still hold the opinion.
Reddit is full of people who want to be right and don’t understand when a discussion is over. Constant misreading of comments to fit their narrative or enable them to try to correct, even if it doesn’t make any sense, but they have to have the last word.
People actually make comments rather than the same 10 jokes reused over and over.
I don’t feel like I can hold a decent conversation where my mind can be broadened or changed like here or traditional forums, it’s just an opportunity to hyperfocus on one thing for upvotes.
I once got a reply on reddit to a comment I had made ten years earlier. I looked at the person’s comment history, and every single comment that I botheted to look at was a reply to things that were at least five years old. Reddit is not only full of weirdos, it’s full or weirdos who will put in tremendous effort to be weirdos. I’m glad I purged my history on there.
