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It has support for 3rd party apps.
That’s why I’m here!
It’s way less addictive. Seriously, the last time I opened my Lemmy client was 5 days ago. Back when I was active on Reddit, I spent 3 of my waking hours on it every day, that’s 21 hours a week.
Reddit wouldn’t always let me say what I wanted. They would block/shadowban/mute me. Which I realized is inherently wrong in a society that intends to be a democracy.
So I hope Lenny is better in that regard. If I say something I don’t want it taken away. I want it to have a chance to be challenged for what it is.
Once I realized this, I considered how many other probably healthy opinions that never got seen because mods, rules, restrictions and probably also financial and political biases ruined their chances of being challenged and seen in the first place. If only specific opinions are allowed, the whole site is inherently biased. I don’t like that. I bet that would explain the dumb stuff I’ve seen there. Because if nobody can challenge an opinion it will never grow.
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Besides what everyone else has said, I find the conversations here to be smarter. People who left Reddit are probably just more attuned to what’s happening. There’s probably less diversity of opinion here but that’s a trade I’m willing to make.
Basically, quantity vs. quality. I chose quality. Even on Reddit, I was mostly into smaller subs where experts responded to questions (like AskHistorians or AskPhysics) than the bigger ones. (I was banned from r/relationships for asking why women always think you’re hitting on them when you’re actually recruiting a team of elite female assassins. The mods apparently didn’t think it was funny.)
(I was banned from r/relationships for asking why women always think you’re hitting on them when you’re actually recruiting a team of elite female assassins. > This is exactly the thing. The moderation and deleting/banning stuff that deserves to not be removed. Just censorship like this. Idc if posts actually are bad I just want to be able to see them and decide for myself.
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It’s open source and grants me the opportunity to participate.
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It’s distributed (federated) and not just one company making the choices for me and all of us.
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No ADs, gamification and nagging me to buy in-game currency.
Yeah, and it has an usable app.
I think the most important aspect to me is 1) the freedom it provides me with. I don’t like all my communication being in the hand of big tech companies.
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Accessibility is a big plus. Reddit is opposed to 3rd party apps while their official app is appallingly stuttery and feature-incomplete.
Lemmy doesn’t have u/spez, so it’s already infinitely better
It also has you too which is cool.
Just my impression but there seems to be a slightly older crowd here.
Probably related: seems to me like the people here are just ever so slightly more level headed than on Reddit. Have barely ever gotten into so much as a heated discussion over here compared to Reddit.
Then again, when I migrated, I kinda skipped trying to find equivalents of the more toxic subreddits/communities here on Lemmy. No publicfreakouts or shit like that. Just sound and wholesome stuff. Maybe more IT stuff as well.
I can see real upvotes and downvotes.
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Open-source; no one party has monopoly control over the codebase.
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Federated; no one party has monopoly control over the existing network.
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The operators have no problem with third-party clients.
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3rd party app support is probably my #1. Community is no different here than my 15 year experience on reddit, at least here there’s less spam comments. My posts asking for advice or help here are also usually met with more productive support here.
Oh and no ads or sponsored content. I haven’t even back to reddit since the exodus but before I left the sponsored content was so annoying.
I’m not permabanned here for being obscenely anti-russia.
I find the moderation is better here. My posts aren’t being removed because they didn’t match some forced title formatting or some other arbitrary reason.
People also aren’t just redirecting people to decade old posts and megathreads which is nice.
Think about what AskReddit is like with the same kind of posts over and over again because they decided to limit posters to the title text.
I had a really positive interaction with a mod on a NSFW instance. I commented on how I thought the dude was working in an unsafe manner…
I wasn’t banned! If this has been reddit I would have been banned and told to Fuck off.
It’s nice to have a place to go that’ll engage in conversation and education when needed.
If communities end up with hundreds of thousands or millions of users, you will start to see more rules here too.
I’m not saying any specific rule choices are good or bad. But they become increasingly necessary when the user count crosses a threshold.
That’s part of the reason I am hoping Lemmy doesn’t become the new Reddit with a total migration of users. I like the smaller userbase as selfish as that is. I feel like at least with the federated nature of Lemmy we would see less power mods that run a majority of communities preventing crosspromotion with other communities/instances and limiting feedback.
I get why rules need to be added as a community grows but with Reddit this seems to mean a lot of micromanagement over things that wouldn’t effect enjoyment of subreddit members and adding hurdles for new or infrequent users
Here’s a hypothetical example that kind of goes along with my previous comment:
I want to post in a Elder Scrolls game modding subreddit asking about quality of life mods for games before Skyrim. It gets removed because the subreddit requires you to tag a specific game using a format like [Oblivion] or [Morrowind] for easier searching and sorting. The issue is I am not just talking about one game and tagging every TES game since Arena would eat up a lot of title space.
In the grand scheme of things it makes sense but it’s annoying to deal with especially if the subreddit doesn’t clearly prompt users on why their post was removed and people who are just popping by to ask a quick question might be discouraged.
I am hoping we don’t see things like that become the norm on Lemmy.
I think a lot of the annoyance that comes from rules similar to your example is the fact it is a system bolted on to whatever is available in Reddit. And the UI/UX is almost always TERRIBLE.
If it was easier to make clean and functional post/comment flows this would be less of a burden.
Your points still stand. But I do think a large proportion of the friction from many rules comes from Reddits architecture. And frankly, the fact that they support apps. If it had stayed just the website, we would have probally seen more movement on improving these flows. But it’s deemed too complicated to support in two formats. Also, Reddit probally just does not give a shit.
I would hope Lemmy could be a place where it’s easy to deploy systems for proper labeling and tagging in niche communities that gain a lot from better taxonomies and other systems.
