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.
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2025
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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.
Because Reddit banned me for posting "If you have the opportunity, you should always punch a Nazi".
No wonder. As you can see, there's a lot less use of that 'O-word' over here.
Yes, well... I'm kinda rural, and it's not everyday I see people outside of my little town. None of us are Nazis, so opportunities don't come along everyday.
Opportunity?
I'm allowed to comment without first being required to farm an unknown amount of karma.
Not corporate controlled, friendlier communities overall.
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)
Every way.
Fewer dumb kids.
One Word: TOR
(Well its technically one acronym, 3 words xD, but you get the idea.)
I like to just make disposable account whenever I feel like to post stuff, to compartmentalize. I mean, the anonymity is so perfect, you wouldn't know if everyone on this thread is secretly my alt. (Its not, but it could be. You never know 😉)
All of them.
The freedom to say what you want without some superadmin removing it
Yeah while psychotic mods are probably a wash, if not a little bit worse here, we don't have to deal with administrators and that's the big problem.
Because I hear Spez say “Stick it in deeper every single time I 🪵 in.”
Practically every way, except for the lewd content; Reddit just has more.
Reddit is just a mess and very toxic expectantly sense it wont allow me to login anymore. Some of the worst places that were mostly non-nsfw were teen subs and sidheuste subs from what i experienced.
I just like lemmy better and the community, lemmy also offer more freedom without the need for a karma requirement to post.