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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?

schloppah ,
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I’ve been avoiding the political BS and finding it much better. Easier to avoid the vitriolic stuff here too. And you can turn off seeing comment and post scores so downvotes don’t exist for me.

I haven’t seen nearly as many obvious rage bait bot posts either.

zecg ,
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You can use a client that doesn’t offend your eyes.

leftzero ,

When one instance enshittifies itself you can just block it.

Also, no greedy little pigboy Spez.

InternetUser2012 ,

It’s not commercial. Your data isn’t being harvested to advertise to you.

chicken ,

Overall, it isn’t yet. Reddit has more developed niche subs, more in-depth posts and comments, and enough content even if you filter out the low effort stuff. Where Lemmy is better is that it is decentralized and not run like a corporate dictatorship with zero respect for its users the way Reddit is.

Allero ,

Honestly, it looks like Lemmy sadly became more and more similar to Reddit in that regard. I remember times when it was different and people were way more civil.

That’s not to say all good people are gone, and if you move away from politics and Linux, there’s a treasure trove of nice and welcoming people in here.

In any way, welcome!

FeelzGoodMan420 ,

In terms of how it’s structured, it has the potential to be better, but also the potential to be not much better. in terms of the community and getting downvoted for petty reasons - it’s the same as Reddit. Welcome to Lemmy!

slingstone ,

No spez?

ano_ba_to ,

When you think about it, every sarcastic comment you make on Reddit now makes Google better. Reddit is too corporate, but who wouldn’t want to spread seriously good information on Reddit, to be picked up by the google machine? People need to know about the benefits of eating a little piece of rock a day.

Omgboom ,

It’s not reddit, that’s good enough

bionicjoey ,

I wouldn’t say “better”, because then people will assume, as you have, that it solves all of the problems with Reddit. Lemmy solves certain specific problems that are evident on Reddit. Namely the centralized ownership of the platform and the enshittification that can result from that.

It doesn’t solve the problem of certain bad-faith user behaviours like downvote brigading, trolling, etc. If anything, those problems are a bit worse in the fediverse since ban evasion is really easy. We recently had a problem with a troll who spent two months posting incel stuff to a variety of different communities, and when he got banned from one instance he would just create a new account with a different instance. He went through like 15 accounts, though he does appear to have finally given up as of a week ago.

Blaze ,

He went through like 15 accounts, though he does appear to have finally given up as of a week ago.

Let’s hope

Catoblepas ,

I’m pretty sure I know who you’re talking about, and I regret to inform you he (or his ideological twin) made another alt a couple of days ago. I dunno if he’s been banned on the instance yet or not, he was banned from blahaj more or less immediately.

lazycouchpotato ,
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The audience is mostly the same so you’re not going to find many differences there. It’s mostly the platform and its philosophy you’ll find a difference in.

kratoz29 ,
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We have plenty of 3rd party clients baby!

lazynooblet ,
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Andromxda ,
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It’s not controlled by one single entity. Everyone can spin up their own instance and host their communities, and you can block instances that deserve it. And the software is completely open source and stuff, and it obviously works with all kinds of third-party clients and doesn’t try to monetize the API. And we don’t have spez, so that’s of course another benefit. And no ads! I could go on and on…

doggle ,

Open mobile app support

Ad free (depending on the app and instance, but its pretty easy to get Lemmy without ads)

No CEO to make whacky, unpopular decisions without clear purpose or recourse

No shareholders whose priorities will always take precedence over the users

There’s also something to be said for being part of a smaller community

Of course any and all problems can occur in microcosm within a particular instance or community, but it’s trivial to just block that instance/community. As for brigading, bullying, and harassment, Lemmy offers no solutions to human nature, unfortunately.

Feathercrown ,

Lemmy offers no solutions to human nature

This is an excellent way to phrase it lol

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