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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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Which by extension removes the stupid one liner contest that every reddit post devolves into.
And karma farming shitposts
ikr, those people are actual zombies. i kinda like the one liner contests. seeing my favorite niche (or not so niche) subreddits pop up in unrelated places is one of the main appeals of reddit to me.
This. It makes it much more unlikely to see tons of reposts, and as such it will be easier to see new interesting stuff.
Relatively tech literate user base
Not for long if the migration continues
Immediate comments without needing to refresh. Things are just immediately showing up, which makes it feel so alive
No ads and the fact, that it is open source and community driven.
No karma
It feels way more community focused. There's a distinct lack of corporate influence, which is great.
Seeing downvotes as soon as there's at least one is so cool to me. Very small detail, but it makes a pretty big impact.
Edit: I appreciate the downvote to display this awesome feature ๐
Reddit used to have that with a browser add on called Reddit Enhancement Suite. They cut off access to the downvote numbers a while ago. I've missed it ever since.
Downvotes were shown by default without RES. They removed it but RES dev made it possible somehow.
Even with RES, I remember seeing a few years ago that Reddit does some form of obfuscation with karma. So no one really knows the true number of downvotes and upvotes.
YES! Especially since just about every social media has removed or never included dislikes at this point.
Though some of the larger Lemmy instances have disabled downvoting.
The decentralized and community-driven model that essentially guarantees Lemmy being free from big corporations creating the ad-centric hellscape of centralized social media. That, and the UI is much clearer and feels lighter, even compared to Old Reddit.
Does it, though? An instance could theoretically become so big it overshadows all others, then defederate from everyone.
When account migration gets added and something like community sync is in place, I can see that issue being mitigated. Sure, there might be some chaos, but the underlying nature of the fediverse makes the issue much less likely to occur.
This^. And not just the ads, but the decentralized nature should also protect the community at large. Where as if Nintendo doesn't like something on r/Nintendo they may have sufficient pull to force a change. With communities being decentralized it means that corporations have a lessened ability to throw their weight around.
This was a big thing for me too. And I agree about the UI, it feels close to reddit I guess but I've not had any issues finding my way around and joining a bunch of communities that interest me. I've also commented/posted more than I ever did on reddit already!
The friendly community
When you sort by "New" it kinda refreshes in realtime.
Much less cluttered UI. Very friendly communities.
The smaller community.
I remember when the top post on Reddit had 10.000 upvotes... Today you can't interact anymore, just "consume".
That you're not walking on eggshells.
My username/account was deleted when I (deservedly) berated a racist-sexist-homophobic guy. My comments were removed but his hateful posts remained.
So hopefully we won't get biased and power-tripping admins and mods here.
Currently it feels like a reverse Golgafrincham situation. We got rid of the useless third by jumping ship. Let's convince them we got swallowed by an enormous mutant Star-Goat ๐คฉ https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrincham
Better UI
Unicode characters in display names.
You are not called an orc if you disagree with whatever The Washing Post or other USA state media says.
Feels more like old school forums instead of conglomorated shitpost: meme response, ironic response, [deleted] spam response bot response
Not overloaded with porn. Reddit is full of bots and porn accs. Not the greatest issue ofc
Why that was the best part for me ๐. Will get on it to make Lemmy feel more like home ๐.
No offense, and I've seen several people requesting porn, but to me that kind of lowers the level or seriousness of a community. I'm OK if a platforms allows NSFW content, but there's a difference between actively browsing for porn and getting spam to your account. Porn is a very distracting stuff with addiction potential.
To me the best thing about forums, reddit, lemmy, etc. is the aggregation of general human knowledge, and it's better if you don't have to swim over a load of attention-grabbing content for it.
I was joking for the most part. What I meant was NSFW content. Like nothing too much like porn, like r/upvotebecauseboobs or r/hornyjail, stuff like that. I mean, I like tech news and being serious, but I also like to see something just whacked from time to time... or some boobies ๐. What can I say, I'm married ๐คท ๐.
I'm happy I won't have to deal with seeing subreddits named _____porn, like DesignPorn. So immature and cringe
There are a ton of them, actually. There's like 10 on lemmy.ml if you search "porn" on https://browse.feddit.de/
That's unfortunate, I was hoping it wouldn't be a thing. Oh well, it's not a big deal
Yeah, the diversity means that there's bound to be content you dont like. Simple enough to just block the community though, and then they wont show up for you anymore.
There's a big red block button in the sidebar on desktop, and then you can also manage your blocks in your settings page.
I want lemmy to succeed but reddit is still alright (as long as it allows you to use the old interface in a web browser). Won't delete it in the forseeable future
My guy the Reddit admins actively try to lie about and gaslight the community, even after evidence is publically stacked against them, Reddit is far from "alright".
"banned because of spam" go brrr
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The only reason I reluctantly keep my account is because of a few niche communities I lurk and sometimes comment in. And I'll add that Reddit is usable thanks to the old interface + uBlock Origin and third-party apps on mobile (and we all know what's happening next); I'd call it "alright" just as a euphemism for "not (yet) as bad as Facebook or Instagram".
What are the alternatives? I can tell you that lemmy is and probably never will actually be a viable alternative
There really are no viable, slipstream alternatives. The only entities with the resources to spin up a massive, centralized social link aggregator and community-based discussion system would be a handful of companies in big tech (Facebook, Twitter, Alphabet/Google, etc.), and none of them have platforms that are appropriately analogous to reddit. Even if they did, three weeks to migrate and onboard millions of users is a tall order.
Lemmy is the closest thing I've found so far in terms of a similar experience and UX, and while it's still pretty rough around the edges (mainly in terms of UX and infrastructure redundancy), the decentralized nature enables it to scale horizontally without requiring resource expansion for a single player. It definitely needs some work to optimize instance implementation and capacity-based promotion, but I believe it has a lot of potential.
With that attitude it won't be.
You're in for a disappointment
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