Reddit advertising was particularly toxic. Ads were unskippable and often predatory. Beer and gambling ads in addiction subs, Jesus ads in atheism and minority religion subs, etc.
I was checking my weather app, and they fed me an ad for something that I didn't even know what it was, so I went to the website, clicked around a bunch, just so they thought I was interested. All Praise be to VPN! Sometimes reinforcing a mis-impression is the best thing one can do.
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.
Perhaps the communities are not as fake because updoots cannot be farmed (either to sell the account or just so you can feel your existence validated, lol). And maybe monotheistrevolutionaries.lemmy.ml could exist? 😅
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.
For a couple of years there were accounts where all the comments they made had a theme, usually the username was related. That's how ShittyWatercolor started; someone would describe something in a comment and that would make shitty watercolor artwork of it.
There were tons of them. I remember another that would replace words in the comment with a link to a Magic the Gathering card where the title of the card would fill in the rest of the sentence.
There was another that would
witre cmeomtns lkie tihs
so your brain could read them even though nothing was spelled properly.
There were a few threads where they'd Assemble like the Avengers and it would be a bunch of folks all playing off one another. It was glorious, and then it all just kind of faded away...
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....
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.
Not sure if I'd still be there, and thank God for the Connect app for Lemmy that it getting close to the point of being actually useful because without that I don't know where I'd be
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.
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.
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.
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.
(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 😉)
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.
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.
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.
i use a minimalist app written in rust that i prefer to the reddit or default lemmy experience
No advertising. No algorithms driving content at me.
It's one of those things I don't notice until I make a trip back to Reddit to pick up something I left (moving out takes time).
At least once per visit I end up clicking an ad by accident, because they're everywhere.
I downvote every one . Even the ones with a puppy dog or cat.
That might be worse than not engaging at all 🤷♂️
Reddit advertising was particularly toxic. Ads were unskippable and often predatory. Beer and gambling ads in addiction subs, Jesus ads in atheism and minority religion subs, etc.
Yeah, not missing reddit. Missing some of the peeps, tho.
I hate the adds...and the bots
They serve no purpose for which I have a need.
It really makes you wonder about the type of people that see an ad and say to themselves " I'm going to look into that ".
I see an advertisement and the first thing that pops in my mind is "ok, I'll stay away from that for sure, i definitelydont want that in my life"
I was checking my weather app, and they fed me an ad for something that I didn't even know what it was, so I went to the website, clicked around a bunch, just so they thought I was interested. All Praise be to VPN! Sometimes reinforcing a mis-impression is the best thing one can do.
I like the idea of contributing to something built by users.
People are nicer here. For the most part.
There are a shit ton less corporate ops manufacturing consent.
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.
Banned.
Lemmy hasn't been enshittified.
Lemmy doesn't give a shit if I'm on VPN, which means I can still access it when working from home.
Lemmy as a platform doesn't care. But Lemmy as a community certainly does: You should absolutely be on a VPN in this day and age.
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.
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.
Perhaps the communities are not as fake because updoots cannot be farmed (either to sell the account or just so you can feel your existence validated, lol). And maybe monotheistrevolutionaries.lemmy.ml could exist? 😅
So who do I talk to so I can sell my reddit account. It's got to be worth at least $150 but I'd take a gram of pure MDMA
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.
I did see some pedo apologists recently, but it used to be a very big issue on reddit. I hope that's not a sign they're going to stick here.
Nobody is making profit from my content or selling my data to advertisers.
better discussions, no ads, better mobile experience
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.
In Reddit's really early days, there weren't any subreddits.
goes back to archive.org to find out when that was
Looks like their snapshot on January 10, 2007 lacks a subreddit sidebar, and the one on January 13, 2007 has one, so probably somewhere in there.
The first snapshot they have of Reddit is August 4, 2005, so it was like that for about a year-and-a-half.
I know I wasn't there that early, but I was around for rage comics, Spacedicks, and the rise & fall of the novelty accounts.
The fall of novelty accounts? That's a new one on me.
For a couple of years there were accounts where all the comments they made had a theme, usually the username was related. That's how ShittyWatercolor started; someone would describe something in a comment and that would make shitty watercolor artwork of it.
There were tons of them. I remember another that would replace words in the comment with a link to a Magic the Gathering card where the title of the card would fill in the rest of the sentence.
There was another that would
so your brain could read them even though nothing was spelled properly.
There were a few threads where they'd Assemble like the Avengers and it would be a bunch of folks all playing off one another. It was glorious, and then it all just kind of faded away...
Ah, gotcha. I don't remember seeing a decline, but maybe I wasn't looking for it.
EDIT: It looks like /u/ShittyWatercolour is still posting as of two months ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Janse_van_Rensburg
https://old.reddit.com/user/Shitty_Watercolour
Yeah they still exist. But there's a lot less
Does anyone remember 9M9H9E9? I stumbled on that account around the time of the "magical space pussy" part of the story.
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....
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.
Most of the posts on Lemmy are still made by humans instead of automatically reposting the top posts from 5 years ago forever.
The bots ran me off. I want to read human comments and converse with humans.
Caught a permaban for my, uh, spicy opinions on Russians. I rarely go back to look at something and every post has 10,000 bullshit replies.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
If they hadn't killed RiF client, I'd still be there.
Not sure if I'd still be there, and thank God for the Connect app for Lemmy that it getting close to the point of being actually useful because without that I don't know where I'd be
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.
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.
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.
An actually solid mobile client
I'm not enriching a pedophile neo-nazi
No wonder. As you can see, there's a lot less use of that 'O-word' over here.
Opportunity?
Free, no ads and custom clients. Tech Literate and Left user .
Not corporate controlled, friendlier communities overall.
I'm allowed to comment without first being required to farm an unknown amount of karma.
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.
The people are less stupid. We weed out the people who don't know how to use computers by implementing hard stuff like "choices"
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)
Its not enshittified in various ways. Its just a news aggregate and discussion forum that functions.
Every way.
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.
liked seeing tech stuff like linux and selfhosting, dont really see it anymore, starting to use it less and less
All of them.
Practically every way, except for the lewd content; Reddit just has more.
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 😉)
Because I hear Spez say “Stick it in deeper every single time I 🪵 in.”
Fewer dumb kids.
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.
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.
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.
I don't prefer lemmy. I'm locked out of the only communities i actually enjoyed, because the mirrors here are dead beyond hope.