honestly, I always feel so much more part of the conversation here. on Reddit, unless you time it just right and browse young posts, chances are your comment will never be seen. on here you’ll be one of 50 top level comments at most. and that’s only the biggest threads. it would be nice to see more activity on more threads, but often when i comment on something with no comments it’s enough to start the conversation.
almost none of my comments here get ignored, and the conversations that come out of them feel better. unless it’s about Linux. you people are insane and unapproachable when it comes to operating systems. not because you’re wrong, you’re just… a lot.
Honestly, be on the guard for big lemmy milestones and make a post about it in [email protected] at the right time, and you can easy end up in the top ten lemmy posts of all time.
Nicer, more intelligent community.
I can comment on a thread even an entire day late and it’ll still get seen and upvoted.
i dont really care about intelligence,as that is a very vague thing to care about, even definition may vary, but the second point is important to me
I was in reddit for over a decade, ended up joining when many of the links I saw on Boing Boing were from reddit posts, so I figured I’d just cut out the middleman.
Lemmy feels like reddit back in the early days, just before the rise of the novelty accounts (I kinda miss those, actually…) when people were still recognized by their usernames, even outside the niche communities.
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It’s not constantly being tweaked and reworked to look and perform worse for the sake of profit.
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Fewer fascists
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Fewer people who are completely illiterate and can’t follow a conversation that’s already laid out in an easy to read format.
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Community rules are not so bloated that only the mods and their friends can make top level posts in the biggest communities.
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3rd party clients
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I pretty much gave up on Reddit when I saw someone get 200 upvotes for making an Among Us joke in response to a school shooting.
Haven’t seen that kind of callousness on Lemmy, which is nice.
Seeing the same-ish users about. Like Emperor and Kolanaki.
Instances and the local discussions in them. Always feels like if the fediverse gets overwhelming, you can retreat to your local page and it feels more cosy.
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Less endless scrolling tbh. Took me a bit to get used to and I still check Lemmy often, but there’s a time when I’ve seen everything for the day
Less privacy invasion, less corporate, less fash, less incoherent fury, less trolling, less need to doomscroll.
I’m either much nicer here, or people are far less confrontational. I’ve said it a hundred times, but every time I receive a notification on Lemmy I brace myself for another senseless asshole. But it’s almost always positive on here.
Senseless asshole here. FUCK YOU!
nah jk
Frig off, Berb!
r/ seems so angry and attacky. I see it some here too, especially recently, but still much less than over there.
Reddit was bad for my mental health. Especially from 2016 onward. If it wasn’t toxic or aggressive people, it was an endless onslaught of all the shitty things happening in the world politically. I don’t even live in the States anymore, and I was still angry every single day. I still see some of it on Lemmy and it’s good to be informed, but Reddit’s algorithm was tailored specifically for my anger. The platform is all ego.
This so much. I feel like the founding values of Lemmy lead to creating a community in which users want this to be a respectful place. There’s nearly no tolerance for hate. It’s awesome.
It truly is night and day. I still see a bit of clashing in the bowels of political posts. Usually a MAGA being downvoted to -48, or various subspecies of liberals having it out, but next to that it’s certainly a lot more tame and respectful.
Being able to block politics and there isn’t as much content here so can’t really doom scroll without tracking time
Posts not being taken down without an explanation. The pics place has more people taking pictures themselves.
I post something and actually get quality engagement. Just did an asklemmy post a few days ago and got tons of good advice thanks to everybody here!
Along with everyone else’s great points, I’m so glad I don’t have to suffer through another “thanks for the gold, kind stranger!” Or yet another painful comment chain of “puns” that are more like weak rhyming/word association, often reusing the same tired phrases. That entire place is so boring and uncreative.
Long live Lemmy!
I wish we could give people some form of awards though, perhaps remove the microtransaction feature (although honestly, awards are actually an ethical feature for raising funds as they’re mainly cosmetic and don’t track you)
I disagree, gently, i like chains, they are fun, and sometimes creative, even the ones i know (like rick roll), maybe this gives a kick to my slightly troll-y side, sense it is harmless and fun (at least for me, fun is subjective). I even liked the thanks for gold, it is not like the gold means anything, it just makes the community feel more live
That’s perfectly valid. With the gold thing, I was referring to the fact that people say it verbatim as I typed, (seemingly) every time. IMO it feels less genuine when someone doesn’t thank another using their own words.
By the way, your respectful disagreement is another reason why I like Lemmy. Courtesy seems to be more common over here :D
