Asklemmy

It's all open, we can participate in its development.

No corporate pissbabies extracting value for shareholders for starts

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.

No ads, and generally more left-leaning.

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.

Reddit's culture is extremely toxic. Like, I actually left Reddit before Lemmy existed for that reason.

Community sizes are smaller but the larger ones are large enough to sustain conversations

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.

No ads and no corporate censorship.

I don't yet-- found my way here after getting banned.

I feel more free to post my controversial opinions: downvotes don't really count nor have an effect on my account

There’s (slightly) fewer cunts on 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.

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.

I don't yet, but it's getting closer.

One reason is on me. I should choose a different instance because mine is the other side of the world from me! Different vibe. I probably haven't moved because I enjoy experiencing local views which oppose and align with my own. Conversely, In the community context, I follow "fuck_ai" and some of the pro-AI communities because it's important to me to see both sides of this revolution develop.

The second is that quite a few of the Reddit communities have limited Lemmy presence with significant momentum. That will hopefully change with time and other platforms willing.

On the flip side, I've found that there are many communities which have momentum which I joined on Lemmy for fun that I haven't investigated as to whether they exist in Reddit. My interests are eclectic and transient sometimes. Perhaps my sense of wonder will wilt one day (that alliteration sounded better in my head; damn!).

I enjoy not having corporate censorship deciding what I can and can't see or say; not that I comment or post that much.

i like piefed because it's not owned by a publicly traded company with massive ai deals, there's fewer terfs, and shonky > snoo

Reddit is intolerant against atheists. You can't speak out againist the pain, suffering, hate, murder, slavery, and genocide from world religions without people in those religions reporting you for hate speech.

Bluesky is just as intolerant against atheists.

Religions and the religious make up stealth blasphemy laws, when they can't directly implement them. They don't want people pointing out how their religious hate hurts everyone, it makes them look bad.

Somehow, Lemmy is the best choice for speaking out against these hateful religions, and the hateful people that support them.

Lemmy over what?