I feel like folks are a lot more willing to be polite and have a discussion versus an argument. Granted, I suspect the federation process and finding a host helps with that.
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The mods are significantly less arbitrary in enforcing rules, with the exception of the instances that we all know. There are still some goofy exceptions, but by and large the mods are less power trippy.
It is less addictive.
The only things it DOESN'T do better is have a large number of users and has the same problems with poor moderation (because they are both just randos with no real checks or balances to their modicum of power so it's very easy to abuse).
Literally everything except having the plethora of niche subs.
Honestly everything other than variety and scale of communities. It's not as big of a compliment as it sounds like though - Reddit is almost unspeakably shitty. Pay a visit to the front page or whatever they call it now and be greeted by nothing but ragebait, hornybait, gender war content, political discussion with zero critical or individual thinking, and 500 popular communities that are completely undifferentiated because they form a singular bland monoculture circle jerk that just repackages the day's hot topic in whatever shoehorned way it can into every subreddit (Lemmy is starting to do this too though yay...). The only difference between it and tiktok is the UI tbh
this comment is poetry.
lemmy does totally lack the vibrant niche communities. i loved the circlejerk communites especially ragging on the stupid stuff in hobby subs, but that can't be here because the mainstream hobby communities have zero users or activity.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
There's at least less astroturfing and AI posing as real people, if nothing else.
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Superiority complex.
7 things, tap to expand
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Moderation: choosing when to ban people or not, and acting on it promptly.
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Blocking people, since you can block communities (needed to use a 3rd party app to actually do this on reddit).
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Filtering out/organising porn, seperating it from SFW content (Reddit tricks you into seeing porn all the time but lemmy holds it on seperate instances.)
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less addictive design
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comment formatting is made easy and seems to have more options.
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honestly has more soul and more polite interactions. Reddit is good in places but not consistently/overall.
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Doesn't demand you install its app, browser is fine.
Doesn’t demand you install its app, browser is fine.
I wish I knew how to do the heart emoji ......
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You need to put two spaces at the end of a line to get a proper line break
It's an odd quirk of markdown.
Or you can press enter twice like I did here if you don't mind the extra space.
I actually have everything formatted the way I intended. Following your comment I did try and add more gaps to make the whole thing more readable/pleasant for people, but nothing changed in its appearance. Sorry if it's hard to read
higher barrier of entry = a higher % of the posts are made by intelligent people.
obviously it's still massively outweighed by the stupid shit, I'm just saying I see it more than I saw it on reddit.
Absolutely the truth for most Fediverse platforms. It takes cognitive effort to join and get started.
It feels less toxic here, or maybe I give less of a shit. I also enjoy the fact that I don't get ads.
Oh yes. No ads is nice!
Pretty good at not being Reddit which is my number one reason for using it.
In my experience, Lemmy users tend to be more mature and less argumentative. You’ll find plenty of exceptions, though.
you sound like someone who blocked lemmy.ml
Perhaps my instance did (I don’t remember), but I haven’t personally.
Yeah well I think u r wrong. Fite me.
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There's like twelve different client apps for Lemmy, right?
I left Reddit when they broke my favorite client app. Seemed destined to go down hill from there.
Communism
I'm not a communist, but I upvoted this comment. Some may be insufferable, but the left slant here is refreshing.
Not even talking just about political discussions, there's just an overall level of empathy, logic and rationality here that's much higher than on reddit
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Federating with mbin and Piefed
This place is what reddit was like 20 years ago
Yeah, shortly before the Digg exodus was reddit's best period imo
I think it was still a fun site through at least the first Place so I'd say peak was post-Digg
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The !superbowl@lemmy.world. No doute.
Crossposting from another fediware. Can't do that outside the fediverse, of course.
Allowing me to post
Also fewer incels.
Still plenty of misogyny around unfortunately tho
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Oh, here's another. I've actually never had "the site" go down, since I moved here. Being federated, most of Lemmy is up, even when a single instance goes down.
My home instance went down once, so I just read along on another instance until it came back up.
Make a lemmy.world account if you want the "site going down all the time" experience.
What is a reddit?
Federate
Honestly, not much. It feels like Reddit Lite 10 years ago
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