Ask Lemmy

I like how easy it is to block people, communities, and instances. It makes it so I can curate my feed into something that's interesting and doesn't make me want to constantly ragepost. It's better for my mental health.

I like that people can share their unfiltered thoughts without being censored. Especially if we’re all feeling disgusted by our world’s leaders.

I'm not enriching a pedophile neo-nazi

Free, no ads and custom clients. Tech Literate and Left user .

I'm currently browsing Lemmy with a third party app.

Reddit wiped out that capacity, and I in turn wiped out my participation on reddit.

No advertising. No algorithms driving content at me.

An actually solid mobile client

Most of the posts on Lemmy are still made by humans instead of automatically reposting the top posts from 5 years ago forever.

The people are less stupid. We weed out the people who don't know how to use computers by implementing hard stuff like "choices"

No fucking Spez messing with the API.

I like the idea of contributing to something built by users.

1. People are nicer here. For the most part.

2. There are a shit ton less corporate ops manufacturing consent.

Lemmy didn't try to force me to dox myself for "age verification".

Lemmy hasn't been enshittified.

Nobody is making profit from my content or selling my data to advertisers.

People are slightly less stupid, which makes conversation not as frustrating. I also don't get banned/suspended because a mod got uppity (and even if it happened, the solutions are easier!). I mean, it happened on .ml but I had to get at least one ban, lol.

Smaller user base means discussions move a bit slower.

Better blocking and other tools for sorting content and users.

No ads.

Far, far fewer petty mods and admins. There will never be zero, but it is much better here overall.

If they hadn't killed RiF client, I'd still be there.

Not giving money or content to a shitty company is enough for me. Once I was here, I found out about the public modlog, the nature of the fediverse, and the love for Linux you people have. Also it feels kinda like, less karmawhoring content, because we don't have karma here. I don't know, this feels like it's shaped by communities for real.

Lemmy doesn't give a shit if I'm on VPN, which means I can still access it when working from home.

I was reddit faithful for over a decade. Lemmy is like reddit's early days, I recognize users across multiple communities - people haven't completely closed themselves off into tiny echo chambers so discussions are actually discussions, and not brigading agreements.

better discussions, no ads, better mobile experience

I don't want to contribute content to support Reddit, Inc. They've demonstrated greedy corpo BS that I don't want to support.

In real life, I prefer to live in a big town.

Online, I prefer to live in a small town.

It's not overflowing with Nazis and pedos. It has a tankie problem, but it's still not as much of a problem as the Nazis and pedos on Reddit.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

Its not enshittified in various ways. Its just a news aggregate and discussion forum that functions.

The people here are much nicer and inquisitive. It feels like im talking to a real person instead of just content bait. I dont need 1000+ comments per post for it to be successful, I just want real people talking to real people.

Plus we can have anyone talking with anyone here. Mastodon talking to lemmy talking to piefed, etc...etc....

Unpopular opinion time: Virtually nothing. Lemmy is, from the end-user perspective, just another Reddit clone filled with the same idiots as Reddit, posting the exact same bullshit as is posted on Reddit.

The only reason I can tolerate this format of interaction has been to have a policy of blocking at least 1 imbecile per day. It actually helps, try it. Block me if you think I'm a loudmouth idiot.

The UX is just so much better in every aspect. UI is clean and (mostly) intuitive, but more importantly, supports alternative frontends and apps offering better and personalized UIs. There isn't a half-dozen roadblocks and annoyances put in the way of accessing content, like VPN-bans and ads. There isn't even a particularly high-bar to join and participate, so no worries about entering a phone number or building up karma.

I can just use the site. Now all I need is content thats actually relevant to me.

The discussions are on average much more civil, and can actually be worth reading rather than to watch a fight. It reminds me of old school slashdot.

From a usability standpoint, Lemmy just works better, for me at least. I used old reddit with RES and Firefox, but ran into random issues stemming from one of the two.

Not corporate controlled, friendlier communities overall.

Because Reddit banned me for posting "If you have the opportunity, you should always punch a Nazi".

Reddit has a stupid karma system where you have to be liked enough just to comment. It defeats the point of having mods. At least here, if the mods are justified or not, you just get banned. There's no beating around the bush, middle-man type of popularity contest.

I'm allowed to comment without first being required to farm an unknown amount of karma.

It's not corporate controlled, and due to federation, it will never succumb to enshittification.

(Individual servers might, but you can always move to another one without any real loss of functionality)