Asklemmy

1. Big corporate web 2.0 walled gardens are trash
2. I like the devs' politics
3. People here give me their precious upvotes 😼

I've started using Lemmy, but I'm still mainly on Reddit. I like the open source, open platform, and federated aspects of Lemmy. There's also the greenfield aspect, because most of the best community names are unclaimed. At the same time, Reddit has a lot of niche interest subreddits that I've joined over the past 11 years of me being on there, including a medium sized subreddit that I moderate. I'm not giving that up.

reddit trying to force their app down my throat.

Easy!

• No shills
• No astroturfing
• No dangerous JavaScript
• No crappy, bloated design
• No tracking
• No proprietary software
• No shadowbanning
• No crazy vindictive moderators
• No stupid rules like "you need to in the community for 3 months to post"

What else?

I support people owned social infrastructures. Lemmy, peertube, pixelfed, mastodon.

It's open source, it's decentralized, and for lemmy.ml specifically, there are a lot of leftists here,

• no r/GetMotivated posts on the front page
• no "Top livestream" in the feed
• fewer astroturfers
• less content (I can actually keep up and then go do something else :)
• no ads
• even if I could hide all that, most of the above is motivated by reddit being a corporation and how their profit-seeking functions.. and that's why the badness seeps much deeper than a few examples can illustrate

Because lemmy is tor user friendly at the moment. What about in the future?

Because open source and decentralized.

Honestly, I signed up immediately when I took a look at the rules of the site/Code of Conduct. And I feel like they will actually be enforced here.

For me, it's not only that it's federated, but that it's limited and kind of small still. It helps me curb my "social media" usage, since there is no limitless stuff to see.

in additional to all the stuff people already mentioned i wanted to add visibility

all the threads you started are likely to receive attention, comments and votes, whereas on reddit it's mostly your post either blows up or goes largely unnoticed

1. Federation means everyone gets a voice, but we all don't have to live under one roof.
2. Freedom-preserving AGPL license limits our capacity to be screwed over.

It really is that simple...

The groups that interested me on Reddit all had their problems. Consistent jerks, rules, etc. Then the 'new' Reddit happened, which looked like it's only purpose was to better serve ads. Deleting my accounts there felt really easy.

Lemmy, I joined because I was more interested in seeing how this kind of site would work with federation. I check on the site a few times a week, occasionally say something or up/down vote a few posts.

Because I'm tired of Reddit. Also, with my own Lemmy instance I want to be a part of building a proper Reddit alternative.

initially, just to support tools that federate or intend to federate + align with product design principals I can get behind. Now , I find the content to be more relevant to my interest , aka the signal to noise ratio is better.

Lemmy is less overwhelming in pretty much every regard, be it loading speed or number of users, of communities, of comments... There is not enough content yet, but the big advantage is that content isn't consumed from a single big platform, but from several smaller sources (different instances through federation)

As someone who has been there back in Usenet’s heyday, I think the Internet works better when it uses decentralized and non-commercial servers. This allows people to post content which is beneficial to readers, instead of content which benefits corporate interests over what helps the small guy.

By using pure open source technology, the board belongs to the community, which means everyone wins, not just whatever corporation “owns” a Lemmy instance.

Because reddit sucks and lemmy doesn't.

Reddit has been in a slow and steady downward spiral for years now. Off the top of my head: the terrible new UI redesign, Aimee Challenor, rampant censorship, nepotism in general. I mean, heck, there were so many controversies on reddit over the years, Wikipedia has to sort them in chronological order!

Lemmy doesn't seem to have those problems. And even if it did, one can always spin up their own instance due to its federated nature.

Reddit is too hostile to its users AND moderators. You join but can't post anywhere because low karma... And nobody tells you that.

As for moss we had to deal with abuse every day (took admins years to introduce the mute feature) and we received news about site wide rules the same time you did. Then were left to enforce them despite not understanding them, as their rules are really loosely defined. But if you don't enforce them, you could get your account or subreddit banned.

So yeah miss me with that shit. I'm not an employee of reddit, I'm a volunteer. It shouldn't have to be a job.

I left some time last year after being suspended and never went back. Best decision I made - you don't notice how negative that place is until you leave.

Also too many fascists on there that reddit still doesn't ban after several blackouts and open letters. Guess there must be fash in the admin team.

I told someone, that I hacked their IP and it is "127.0.0.1", as a joke.

I was permabanned for doxxing...

bc of leftists

I also have a Reddit account, but as time goes I'm using it leeser and lesser. Idk, I really like the aidea behind Lemmy, I just think is the way to go. And I want to push for it. PS: Also I really like how small and privacy/FOSS focused is thing thing (:

the moderation here is as good as it gets, it's 2021 and reddit still allows right wing user

I wrote a whole article on the subject. :)

I don't. I use Lemmy and Reddit alongside eachother

Leans more left-wing. More welcoming community. Similar layout.