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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?

trk ,
@trk@aussie.zone avatar

It’s not, but it’s old Reddit with more attributes that prevent a transition to corporate Reddit so I’ll take it.

PunchingWood , (edited )

I was practically forced to move to other platforms, including Lemmy, because Reddit’s way of dealing with things is absolute garbage. Their app is garbage, their ethics are garbage, their admins and moderators are garbage.

In short I got permabanned on the entirety of Reddit after confronting a moderator in my favorite sub violating their own (and Reddit’s) rules and content policy. Which eventually led being banned on the sub by said moderator, and later Reddit got triggered as I was “avoiding a ban” with an alternative account (which happened accidentally).

Since then it’s been impossible to get in contact with admins, and they’ve been autobanning any new accounts I tried to set up. I’ve been trying to appeal my bans dozens of times in the past year, but never get an actual response from an actual admin, I doubt they even have humans working at Reddit at this point. That’s on my 8+ year old account…

Previously I also got permabanned on dozens of subs for commenting in a sub that was supposedly brigading, I didn’t even have any harmful intention or said anything worthwhile of a ban, yet all those completely unrelated subs banned me for “participating” in the brigade thing.

It just shows what absolute trash moderators and admins of Reddit are. They’re all only playing their own little agendas. They’re only destroying their own community with stuff like this. I miss my favorite communities, but I absolutely don’t miss the garbage surrounding it.

grrgyle ,

It depends on your values. In terms of front page content it’s pretty similar, except with more Linux. The niche communities are kind of lacking, but then you get to have entire hobbyist run niche servers like the one I’m on.

IMO that’s where lemmy really shines: as a truly community owned collection of boards.

Freefall ,

If you have a shit opinion that noone agrees with and they downvote you to hell, that isn’t “brigading”… As for it being better…the mods alone make it 1000x better.

John_McMurray ,

Just as a user, being able to block subs here is awful nice. When reddit decided I didn’t get to decide what I see anymore, I was out.

thawed_caveman ,

I assume that most if not all of Lemmy mods are former/current Reddit mods, same as users. If it’s largely the same people, then the improvement has to come from somewhere else.

carl_dungeon ,

I feel like actual humans read my comments here most of the time. It’s pretty small still, but it’s growing!

III ,

Plus 1!

awiteb ,
@awiteb@lemmy.4rs.nl avatar

You own your data, you can self-host your own Lemmy instance and still connect to other Lemmy instances (Like what I do)

Also you can share whatever you want, no one tells you “If you say that again I’ll ban you from the entire network”. And of course, there are no ads or algorithms showing you what their owners want you to see. It’s freedom.

SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

You own your data

This isn’t true unless you host your day own instance. Your data is owned by your instance admin in the same way Reddit owns their user data.

But the good thing is that on the fediverse, you can choose your own admin by choosing an instance, so you still have far more choice :)

algorithms

There are in fact “algorithms” that decide how to sort posts, they just aren’t as insidious as the ones on reddit and other corporate social media.

UniversalMonk ,
@UniversalMonk@lemmy.world avatar

You own your data, you can self-host your own Lemmy instance and still connect to other Lemmy instances (Like what I do)

Can ya point to a series of instructions that show one how to do that? I mean, I’ll search on my own as well, but since you seem well versed, I thought you may have some unique insight on a really good set of instructions.

Crumbgrabber ,

LEMMY HAS THE CRUMBGRABBER. THAT IS WHY REDDIT HAS NO CHANCE.

madjo ,

All hail the CRUMBGRABBER!

barsquid ,

The mods and admins aren’t usually far-right radical preppers, that creates a more pleasant environment.

Angry_Autist ,

There are not quite as many trolls yet and at least some mods are rational.

The admins are about the same degree of terrible though, but without the fascist coddling.

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.

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.

willya ,
@willya@lemmyf.uk avatar

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.

Rentlar ,

Welcome to Lemmy! Enjoy your stay.

The functions are more or less supposed to be like how Reddit used to be (a link, comment, information and sometimes image aggregator). Here are some differences, though:

  • Many varieties of apps to access the Lemmy API (the reason why many people had migrated from Reddit in 2023 to begin with). It’s even partially compatible with Mastodon apps/accounts (the Fediverse’s closest analogue to Twitter)
  • Power tripping asshole mods and admins exist here just like anywhere else, but they alone can’t ruin all of Lemmy, unlike Reddit. Even the original creators, despite holding a couple of disagreeable and harmful views, has made something that’s larger than themselves.
  • There’s isn’t a dedicated team tied to deepening the owner’s pockets by finding ways to make the experience worse. Development progress is slow but it is continually in the interest of the community.
  • No ads! But please try to support your instance if you can!
  • A public modlog makes a huge difference, even if the mod action originators are still anonymous. By being honest with which of your account(s) were unfairly banned/silenced, you can make a public appeal (just in the form of a post from another instance). If it is a case of the aforementioned power-trippers, extreme bias, or tyrannical rules (but some instances like Beehaw have strict rules for good reason), then it is easy for everyone to see that, and you can make your home on the new Lemmy instance and have a good time. If you’re just a piece of shit troll, that’s also clear as day and then none of the networks will want you and ban you independently or you will get such notoriety that you will be blocked/banned/defederated.
WraithGear ,
@WraithGear@lemmy.world avatar

It’s not owned by a conglomerate that has the misaligned goal of harvesting your data for profit. The fediverse’s goals far closer match the goals of the average poster.

But don’t think this solves the human condition. As a whole we are attention seeking, validation needing, ass holes every single one. I wouldn’t expect much difference in the posters or the mods.

Andromxda ,
@Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

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…

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