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How is Lemmy better than Reddit?

I am a reddit refugee. Keep seeing that this is supposed to be somehow better than Reddit. As far as I can tell, it follows a similar format, less restrictive on posts being removed I suppose. But It looks like people still get down vote brigaded on some communities. So I’m curious, how it’s better?

olafurp ,

It’s more Linux memes for me.

JimSamtanko ,

If you only look on the surface- it really isn’t. Hive-mind mentality, power tripping mods….

It’s essentially the same thing but with a far-left theme.

Now… under the hood? Entirely different.

orcrist ,

Far left? Where? I just don’t see it.

Solumbran ,

Having fewer nazis and more “enlightened” centrists is considered far left nowadays

JimSamtanko ,

Nah- punching everything right of Karl Marx is considered far-left on lemmy.

Nibodhika ,

Lots of great answers, but I would like to know from you, WHY did you leave reddit?

For lots of us the last straw was closing down the API, since that meant we were forced into the official app. Such a thing is impossible on Lemmy because it’s federated, so if an instance decided to do that, it would just get ignored by everyone else.

freeman ,

Much more diverse opinions mainly because there are more non-Americans percentage wise.

secret300 ,

open-source, self hostable and federated

willya ,
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You’ll find more people who you can relate to on Reddit if you’re a fairly normal person. Lemmy is still small and mostly an echo chamber as everyone shares the same opinions. Most of us simply came here because of the API issues.

Dashi ,

For me it was also the API issues. I hated the normal client and only used sync. When they shut down the API I left. Unfortunately I feel like my /all is mostly political and the niche communities I follow don’t have enough content. I’ll always be a lurker.

Dr_DOOM_ ,

I was in the same boat as you. I recommend searching for new instances. There’s many now which gives your more options.

sheogorath ,

Yea, but the recent plans like monetizing some of the subreddits already broke several of the communities that I still like to lurk on reddit like r/formuladank and r/trustull where the mods clamped down on the unhinged people that made the subreddit in order to make the sub more advertiser friendly.

Dead_or_Alive ,

Welcome, it’s not better.

roserose56 ,

Simple, no Karma whoring, real people to argue, no bots posting fake stories about something that happened related to the post, and best of all, controlled by users and not corporate people.

Daxtron2 ,

Life on Lemmy (and reddit/social media in general) becomes a lot better when you turn off vote displays

SupraMario ,

Yep, and they don’t matter so who gives a shit.

Blaze ,

They affect visibility so they still matter to an extend

nomous ,

I like that if they matter at all it’s only in the context of the thread. The points aren’t tied necessarily tied to your account in a long term way so points don’t matter at the end of the day.

Daxtron2 ,

If you care about visibility sure, I’m just here to post and respond. I don’t really care if my comments are higher or lower in the list than someone else’s.

Buttflapper OP ,

I agree that votes don’t matter at all. Now please, except my humbly casted vote for you in the upward direction :D But no, I think psychologically speaking, votes actually do kind of matter because of mob mentality. If the first thing you see is something overwhelmingly negative, you’re more likely to think negatively. This was tested and seems to be the case, if people see a bunch of negative comments on something, they are more like to join in on the mob and downvote or be negative

Daxtron2 ,

Which is exactly why you shouldn’t have them on. Form your own opinions, don’t just go with the mob.

SuperSaiyanSwag ,

At the end of the day, we all loved Reddit at one point, but it is clear where it is heading with all the random mtx stuff, adding some annoying standard social media features, making asshole greedy corpo decisions etc.
One big one for me is that the opinions seems a lot more varied, but I think Reddit has been flooded with bots for the past few years.

fprawn ,

The form of this kind of social media has got the same set of upsides and downsides as it does on Reddit. It won’t be exactly the same because the people are different, but the problems aren’t that different and the people aren’t that different either.

As a mostly lurker I find the experience pretty similar. I scroll through and find some interesting articles, bits of news, memes. It’s a slower pace, but I think in time it’ll grow faster. People migrate over occasionally, but there may be a critical mass moment when it’s big enough that lots of people start flooding over. Or it won’t and it’ll just fizzle out to nothing over time, who knows. For the moment it’s good enough for me to have replaced Reddit entirely.

As for things that are better: you get a lot more control over how you want to experience it. There’s no singular controller always dragging the experience down toward profitability. There are clients a-plenty, the api is open, you can control what parts of the network you see and which you don’t. It does take some effort, of course.

As for worse, because there’s no singular entity controlling the network, there’s going to be some very dark corners. You can block them (many will be blocked by individual server operators already), but they’re still there and they get to carry the Lemmy name and newcomers are most likely to experience it.

Just my thoughts on the subject, it’s been discussed a lot, I’m sure other people have quite different perspectives.

some_guy ,

Others have already nailed some of the best reasons so I’ll just say Welcome.

kat_angstrom ,

I’m here. :)

Taleya ,

It’s not flogging your data, forcing you into using shitty apps or generally selling you for stock value.

lud ,

The only benefits I care about is that Lemmy has “third party” apps

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