Well, I have not been banned from Lemmy for my anti-Nazi opinions.
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Not permabanned for unknown reason (i never posted or commented ever on reddit and got banned)
No karma means being able to post in any sub without having to have 100+ karma.
true, that's a big fucking plus
Well the apps and interface is better for sure.
I still doom scroll reddit Iβm somewhat ashamed to say, but I only post on Lemmy. I do rather enjoy the smaller base here to interact with.
Physically. Good apps and lack of ads.
Spiritually. A sense of freedom.
Lack of ads and ideological sympathies for FOSS is a huge part of why I came here but I stayed because the smaller size of lemmy allows for a feeling of community that reddit cannot achieve. I see and interact with users I recognize and know a decent deal of information about.
It's calmer. Less clearly corporate interest promoted content. Less rage baiters. Less bots.
No ads, and generally more left-leaning.
I donβt feel like I am being scalped for every ounce of data.
Right? What's with all the obvious data gathering posts with huge upvotes like: "What was your favorite commercial as a kid?", or "What's that one thing you keep secret?" Really? It might as well be a day old account with 30 karma posting: "Please post a list of your favorite passwords alphabetically if you're cool".
It's all open, we can participate in its development.
Most of all: it's run non-for-profit. There are no ads, donations are optional (I have the means to chip in a bit each year) and its not VC funded and therefore has no intrinsic pressure to enshittify like reddit repeatedly did. Lemmy does not exploit me.
I've been able to make (very minor) improvements to the codebase.
I could download and host an instance if I thought there was one my hobbies needed.
I can move around pretty easily without missing much if admins are moderating in a way I disagree with, or kowtow to corporate interests or garbage national laws. And some of the reddit admins (not merely subreddit mods) were abusive.
lemmy doesn't let the idf to moderate their communities and you can say things that run contrary to mainstream narratives.
Fuck the mainstream! Am I doing this right?
Everyone hates the mainstream; the real question is: have you taught yourself how to change things?
No corporate pissbabies extracting value for shareholders for starts
Reddit's culture is extremely toxic. Like, I actually left Reddit before Lemmy existed for that reason.
There is just a lot less noice on Lemmy. Reddit feels like 1 legit post for every 100 shit post.
I feel more free to post my controversial opinions: downvotes don't really count nor have an effect on my account
It's nice not having a shitty corporation actively and visibly screwing me.
I don't I'm just banned there. I would be fine with lemmy if there were more people here with specific tiny sub-comunities like reddit. hell, there arent even big fandom pages here...
lemmy is much smaller so far and I like the communities. I also don't feel like i'm being psyop'd by a bunch of bots in the larger communities like on reddit.
On Lemmy I only follow news and informative stuff, and on here there's an emphasis on the things I'm already interested in (FOSS, Privacy, etc.)
My instance doesn't sell what I write to train AI.
Of course, the AI sumbitches probably scrape Lemmy for content too like they scrape everything for content. But at least Lemmy doesn't give them my content on a platter, nicely packaged up and ready to exploit and monetize. They have to do the scraping.
I've never really since I didn't have any reason to, although I regularly use it as a knowledge base since Lemmy cannot compete on that regard.
I like the idea of the fediverse so I thought I'd come here.
Also surveilance capitalism sucks ass.
It's small enough that you can know people on your instance. And posts get engagement for way longer.
Also separate up and down vote numbers is nice.
Community sizes are smaller but the larger ones are large enough to sustain conversations
Reddit banned my 10 year old account because they flagged it as a ban evasion account, stupid cunts.
I'm new to lemmy as a whole, So time will tell.
No ads and no corporate censorship.
All ways.
I occasionally have a real conversation on Lemmy.
Is the most concise answer "Every"? Personally, it is the profound absence of actively sponsored gathering for the village idiots.
I haven't been permabanned over reporting a post and then fingerprinted such that my new accounts get insta-banned even through a VPN.
I love chatting with people that are generally more reasonable and kind. Random viciousness seems absent here in my experience.
Ethics. Reddit has become subject to corporate greed so they can simply go bankrupt for all I care.
Yes
Right answer.
Website format is much nicer. I like that you can post links knowing you wont get deranked or blackholed by a random mod. Modlog is also a nice feature.
The modlog is excellent. In fact, I've seen it used not just to keep mods accountable (or at least prove to the community that they're abusive), but also to refute troublemakers who claim they were banned from an instance for no reason or for ideological reasons, when the modlog shows them making clearly bigoted and inflammatory posts.