in what way do you prefer using Lemmy over Reddit?
10mon 24d ago by feddit.uk/u/Abraxas in asklemmy@lemmy.ml
Well the apps and interface is better for sure.
I still doom scroll reddit I’m somewhat ashamed to say, but I only post on Lemmy. I do rather enjoy the smaller base here to interact with.
We enjoy you too buddy.
Gosh that warmed my heart way more than it should! Maybe that’s why I love Lemmy!
I try to sprinkle a bit of love where I can, here and there. Makes the place feel more like home. 💓
It's calmer. Less clearly corporate interest promoted content. Less rage baiters. Less bots.
Conversation can happen in the comments on lemmy.
No they cant! So anyways, did you do anything cool this weekend?
Just house work buddy. Moving sucks.
I hear ya. Bet you found some cool stuff you forgot about though.
I did. I didn't know that some builders used joists and wall studs instead of ducts for hvac. Can't say i like it though.
I don’t feel like I am being scalped for every ounce of data.
Right? What's with all the obvious data gathering posts with huge upvotes like: "What was your favorite commercial as a kid?", or "What's that one thing you keep secret?" Really? It might as well be a day old account with 30 karma posting: "Please post a list of your favorite passwords alphabetically if you're cool".
Lack of ads and ideological sympathies for FOSS is a huge part of why I came here but I stayed because the smaller size of lemmy allows for a feeling of community that reddit cannot achieve. I see and interact with users I recognize and know a decent deal of information about.
No corporate pissbabies extracting value for shareholders for starts
It's all open, we can participate in its development.
Most of all: it's run non-for-profit. There are no ads, donations are optional (I have the means to chip in a bit each year) and its not VC funded and therefore has no intrinsic pressure to enshittify like reddit repeatedly did. Lemmy does not exploit me.
I've been able to make (very minor) improvements to the codebase.
I could download and host an instance if I thought there was one my hobbies needed.
I can move around pretty easily without missing much if admins are moderating in a way I disagree with, or kowtow to corporate interests or garbage national laws. And some of the reddit admins (not merely subreddit mods) were abusive.
No ads, and generally more left-leaning.
My instance doesn't sell what I write to train AI.
Of course, the AI sumbitches probably scrape Lemmy for content too like they scrape everything for content. But at least Lemmy doesn't give them my content on a platter, nicely packaged up and ready to exploit and monetize. They have to do the scraping.
Nobody needs your instance to sell anything. The AI companies can access the data for free, just like the rest of us do through the web.
Some instances like solarpunk sit behind anubis which makes each request from scrapers cost exponentially more than usual. Its not much but at least people on lemmy have the mind to try and strike back, on reddit they take it laying down.
and other instances that federate with solarpunk have almost the same data and are easier to scrape
Eh, if they run their own ActivityPub server they can probably extract everything in a neat format.
Yeah but they have to set it up. It's not sold to them ready to exploit - and crucially, Spez doesn't get to make any money off my back.
Reddit's culture is extremely toxic. Like, I actually left Reddit before Lemmy existed for that reason.
It can be toxic here too. I had my misadventure with a bunch of "experts" absolutely sure that the future is communism and "stupid you brainwashed fool" if you don't get it.
Oh I remember that, lol. It was a bunch of people giving long, well thought out explanations of their position to you, and you responding by ignoring them and insulting them.
Communism is the logical progression of society. It isn't a certainty, but the alternative in the long-run is disaster and barbarism.
Sure, but there's a lot of side paths to Communism that have resulted in genocide and environmental destruction. People need to be more skeptical of the flag bearers of Communism rather then treating it like a sport were they pick a side.
The vast majority of Marxist-Leninists don't treat it as a sport where we pick a side. MLs are fully capable of recognizing progressive movements like Cuba, the USSR, and PRC, and recognizing faux-communism a la the Gonzaloite terrorists of the Shining Path in Peru or Pol Pot the mass murderer. These latter two were not successful applications of Marxism, but deviations far beyond the norm.
Communism remains to be the logical progression of society. As production continues to centralize and class struggle heightens, the more necessary revolution and sublimating property into collective ownership and a common plan becomes. It's as much economically compelled as it is morally. The alternative, again, is barbarism as capitalism crumbles under its own unsustainability.
.ml and shit talking communism.
Actually the worst appears to be hexbear that I blocked entirely.
Quite frankly I don't care much. I actually enjoy being exposed to different views, and I can ignore extremism quite easily.
It's small enough that you can know people on your instance. And posts get engagement for way longer.
Also separate up and down vote numbers is nice.
No ads and no corporate censorship.
I don't yet-- found my way here after getting banned.
Community sizes are smaller but the larger ones are large enough to sustain conversations
Well, I have not been banned from Lemmy for my anti-Nazi opinions.
I feel more free to post my controversial opinions: downvotes don't really count nor have an effect on my account
Physically. Good apps and lack of ads.
Spiritually. A sense of freedom.
lemmy is much smaller so far and I like the communities. I also don't feel like i'm being psyop'd by a bunch of bots in the larger communities like on reddit.
There’s (slightly) fewer cunts on here.
I get to see answer this question every month.
No karma means being able to post in any sub without having to have 100+ karma.
true, that's a big fucking plus
lemmy doesn't let the idf to moderate their communities and you can say things that run contrary to mainstream narratives.
Everyone hates the mainstream; the real question is: have you taught yourself how to change things?
Website format is much nicer. I like that you can post links knowing you wont get deranked or blackholed by a random mod. Modlog is also a nice feature.
The modlog is excellent. In fact, I've seen it used not just to keep mods accountable (or at least prove to the community that they're abusive), but also to refute troublemakers who claim they were banned from an instance for no reason or for ideological reasons, when the modlog shows them making clearly bigoted and inflammatory posts.
I enjoy not having corporate censorship deciding what I can and can't see or say; not that I comment or post that much.
I don't yet, but it's getting closer.
One reason is on me. I should choose a different instance because mine is the other side of the world from me! Different vibe. I probably haven't moved because I enjoy experiencing local views which oppose and align with my own. Conversely, In the community context, I follow "fuck_ai" and some of the pro-AI communities because it's important to me to see both sides of this revolution develop.
The second is that quite a few of the Reddit communities have limited Lemmy presence with significant momentum. That will hopefully change with time and other platforms willing.
On the flip side, I've found that there are many communities which have momentum which I joined on Lemmy for fun that I haven't investigated as to whether they exist in Reddit. My interests are eclectic and transient sometimes. Perhaps my sense of wonder will wilt one day (that alliteration sounded better in my head; damn!).
The anti AI communities sure are very vocal
Pretty sure the anti steam power or electricity people were too.
I'm a strange bugger, I like to hear both sides of an argument and especially the corner cases. That never seems to happen anymore.
"I don't agree with you."
"Your cancelled."
Yeah. Most of it is ranting but very occasionally someone says something interesting or someone from the pro- side makes something known that isn't very pro- (copyright breaches etc).
There is just a lot less noice on Lemmy. Reddit feels like 1 legit post for every 100 shit post.
I don't I'm just banned there. I would be fine with lemmy if there were more people here with specific tiny sub-comunities like reddit. hell, there arent even big fandom pages here...
I tried making a new account when I was on a different ISP than at my home, so I need to be on a new device in a new place...
no, I'm a bit computer illiterate tbh, but I'll look it up and do that at some point, right now it's just not worth the bother for me really, I'm mostly sad the 15 year old account is dead...
i like piefed because it's not owned by a publicly traded company with massive ai deals, there's fewer terfs, and shonky > snoo
I love chatting with people that are generally more reasonable and kind. Random viciousness seems absent here in my experience.
I occasionally have a real conversation on Lemmy.
Reddit banned my 10 year old account because they flagged it as a ban evasion account, stupid cunts.
I'm new to lemmy as a whole, So time will tell.
Right answer.
I've never really since I didn't have any reason to, although I regularly use it as a knowledge base since Lemmy cannot compete on that regard.
I like the idea of the fediverse so I thought I'd come here.
Also surveilance capitalism sucks ass.
Is the most concise answer "Every"? Personally, it is the profound absence of actively sponsored gathering for the village idiots.
All ways.
It's nice not having a shitty corporation actively and visibly screwing me.
On Lemmy I only follow news and informative stuff, and on here there's an emphasis on the things I'm already interested in (FOSS, Privacy, etc.)
Ethics. Reddit has become subject to corporate greed so they can simply go bankrupt for all I care.
Not permabanned for unknown reason (i never posted or commented ever on reddit and got banned)
I haven't been permabanned over reporting a post and then fingerprinted such that my new accounts get insta-banned even through a VPN.
Reddit is intolerant against atheists. You can't speak out againist the pain, suffering, hate, murder, slavery, and genocide from world religions without people in those religions reporting you for hate speech.
Bluesky is just as intolerant against atheists.
Religions and the religious make up stealth blasphemy laws, when they can't directly implement them. They don't want people pointing out how their religious hate hurts everyone, it makes them look bad.
Somehow, Lemmy is the best choice for speaking out against these hateful religions, and the hateful people that support them.
Not so sure that would be very different here
It seems however that Lemmy is pretty anti religion
the difference is that there isn't just one instance of Lemmy that bans you from the entirety of Lemmy. Antisemites are free to make their own instances as are israelites or communists.
Sure but some instances like to defederate, so you get cut off from the rest
most federate on a blocklist not an allowlist
Defederate auto corrected to federate
Fixed it
I literally do not read any reply. I also delete most of my comments after a little bit.
This defeats a lot of purpose of lemmy
Digg
Lemmy over what?