ikr, those people are actual zombies.
i kinda like the one liner contests. seeing my favorite niche (or not so niche) subreddits pop up in unrelated places is one of the main appeals of reddit to me.
Reddit used to have that with a browser add on called Reddit Enhancement Suite. They cut off access to the downvote numbers a while ago. I've missed it ever since.
Even with RES, I remember seeing a few years ago that Reddit does some form of obfuscation with karma. So no one really knows the true number of downvotes and upvotes.
I like the DIY feeling of Lemmy, feels like old Reddit when I was a teenager. I also weirdly like the fact that because I want Lemmy to succeed and grow, I have an incentive to post and comment and upvote and actually engage
Feels more intimate. It's actually kind of all the things I liked about reddit: small community, sort by new. I'm kind of addicted already 😬 it's a plus that we have a chance to see what it becomes. That's the best part imo. I been here only a few hrs, but I feel apart of something. Reddit is a bit disconnected sometimes, especially on larger subs.
Alot of reddit posts ended up being just really dumb nothing posts, but here it seems like the more engaged type crowd for now.
I like the small community feel, as well. What's nice about that is that Lemmy doesn't have to get big to be what it needs to be (but bigger is still nice).
The decentralized and community-driven model that essentially guarantees Lemmy being free from big corporations creating the ad-centric hellscape of centralized social media. That, and the UI is much clearer and feels lighter, even compared to Old Reddit.
When account migration gets added and something like community sync is in place, I can see that issue being mitigated. Sure, there might be some chaos, but the underlying nature of the fediverse makes the issue much less likely to occur.
This^. And not just the ads, but the decentralized nature should also protect the community at large. Where as if Nintendo doesn't like something on r/Nintendo they may have sufficient pull to force a change. With communities being decentralized it means that corporations have a lessened ability to throw their weight around.
This was a big thing for me too. And I agree about the UI, it feels close to reddit I guess but I've not had any issues finding my way around and joining a bunch of communities that interest me. I've also commented/posted more than I ever did on reddit already!
Yeah, the diversity means that there's bound to be content you dont like. Simple enough to just block the community though, and then they wont show up for you anymore.
There's a big red block button in the sidebar on desktop, and then you can also manage your blocks in your settings page.
No offense, and I've seen several people requesting porn, but to me that kind of lowers the level or seriousness of a community. I'm OK if a platforms allows NSFW content, but there's a difference between actively browsing for porn and getting spam to your account. Porn is a very distracting stuff with addiction potential.
To me the best thing about forums, reddit, lemmy, etc. is the aggregation of general human knowledge, and it's better if you don't have to swim over a load of attention-grabbing content for it.
At least in the "fediverse" it's possible to maintain a much cleaner separation between those communities. Like, the server I'm on has this very explicit programming focus (Can't believe this domain name is a thing 😂) and I'm sure there's a server out there for horny peeps who just want to look at porn. Both can have drastically different rules in regards to posting, commenting and such and if a server's admin pulls the plug for one reason or another, the rest of the "network" stays up. 🤷♀️
Would just be nice if there was a way to backup, sync or migrate accounts between federated servers. I expect things will fluctuate quite a bit as many of us take refuge in various servers. Especially if reddit moderation bots get crippled, third party apps die and old.reddit gets the boot, flooding lemmy/kbin servers with more users than some can handle, financially-speaking.
I was joking for the most part. What I meant was NSFW content. Like nothing too much like porn, like r/upvotebecauseboobs or r/hornyjail, stuff like that. I mean, I like tech news and being serious, but I also like to see something just whacked from time to time... or some boobies 😂. What can I say, I'm married 🤷 😂.
It is a meme sub about people who can't keep their sexual lives to themselves and have to tell the world that they in fact, have sex. No offense, but your "btw, I'm in a relationship" comment perfectly fits the bill.
so far at least there are no constant annoying automod filters like 'this title needs to be 250 characters not including spaces, have a [i'm a dumbass] flair, etc etc'
it does nothing to improve the quality of anything and makes the whole UX more annoying. on r/gonewildaudio there's like a paragraph of flairs
Currently it feels like a reverse Golgafrincham situation. We got rid of the useless third by jumping ship. Let's convince them we got swallowed by an enormous mutant Star-Goat 🤩
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrincham
When I click a post it actually opens a new page for the post instead of some weird window overlaying the feed. Things are simplified and easier to use and understand. I don't feel like I'm constantly trying to work around the platform.
I was concerned of the amount of users not being enough to generate content, but so far I have been proven wrong. And the quality of the content is much better. At least for now.
My guy the Reddit admins actively try to lie about and gaslight the community, even after evidence is publically stacked against them, Reddit is far from "alright".
The only reason I reluctantly keep my account is because of a few niche communities I lurk and sometimes comment in. And I'll add that Reddit is usable thanks to the old interface + uBlock Origin and third-party apps on mobile (and we all know what's happening next); I'd call it "alright" just as a euphemism for "not (yet) as bad as Facebook or Instagram".
There really are no viable, slipstream alternatives. The only entities with the resources to spin up a massive, centralized social link aggregator and community-based discussion system would be a handful of companies in big tech (Facebook, Twitter, Alphabet/Google, etc.), and none of them have platforms that are appropriately analogous to reddit. Even if they did, three weeks to migrate and onboard millions of users is a tall order.
Lemmy is the closest thing I've found so far in terms of a similar structure and UX, and while it's still pretty rough around the edges (mainly in terms of UX and infrastructure redundancy), the decentralized nature enables it to scale horizontally without requiring resource expansion for a single player. It definitely needs some work to optimize instance implementation and capacity-based promotion, but I believe it has a lot of potential.
No "total karma" for accounts.
Which by extension removes the stupid one liner contest that every reddit post devolves into.
And karma farming shitposts
How dare you say that! My mother was a saint
ikr, those people are actual zombies. i kinda like the one liner contests. seeing my favorite niche (or not so niche) subreddits pop up in unrelated places is one of the main appeals of reddit to me.
This. It makes it much more unlikely to see tons of reposts, and as such it will be easier to see new interesting stuff.
No ads and the fact, that it is open source and community driven.
Relatively tech literate user base
Not for long if the migration continues
Seeing downvotes as soon as there's at least one is so cool to me. Very small detail, but it makes a pretty big impact.
Edit: I appreciate the downvote to display this awesome feature 👍
Reddit used to have that with a browser add on called Reddit Enhancement Suite. They cut off access to the downvote numbers a while ago. I've missed it ever since.
Downvotes were shown by default without RES. They removed it but RES dev made it possible somehow.
Even with RES, I remember seeing a few years ago that Reddit does some form of obfuscation with karma. So no one really knows the true number of downvotes and upvotes.
YES! Especially since just about every social media has removed or never included dislikes at this point.
Though some of the larger Lemmy instances have disabled downvoting.
I’m doing my part
I like the DIY feeling of Lemmy, feels like old Reddit when I was a teenager. I also weirdly like the fact that because I want Lemmy to succeed and grow, I have an incentive to post and comment and upvote and actually engage
Feels more intimate. It's actually kind of all the things I liked about reddit: small community, sort by new. I'm kind of addicted already 😬 it's a plus that we have a chance to see what it becomes. That's the best part imo. I been here only a few hrs, but I feel apart of something. Reddit is a bit disconnected sometimes, especially on larger subs.
Alot of reddit posts ended up being just really dumb nothing posts, but here it seems like the more engaged type crowd for now.
I like the small community feel, as well. What's nice about that is that Lemmy doesn't have to get big to be what it needs to be (but bigger is still nice).
The decentralized and community-driven model that essentially guarantees Lemmy being free from big corporations creating the ad-centric hellscape of centralized social media. That, and the UI is much clearer and feels lighter, even compared to Old Reddit.
Does it, though? An instance could theoretically become so big it overshadows all others, then defederate from everyone.
When account migration gets added and something like community sync is in place, I can see that issue being mitigated. Sure, there might be some chaos, but the underlying nature of the fediverse makes the issue much less likely to occur.
Are those planned features? Just joined today.
This^. And not just the ads, but the decentralized nature should also protect the community at large. Where as if Nintendo doesn't like something on r/Nintendo they may have sufficient pull to force a change. With communities being decentralized it means that corporations have a lessened ability to throw their weight around.
This was a big thing for me too. And I agree about the UI, it feels close to reddit I guess but I've not had any issues finding my way around and joining a bunch of communities that interest me. I've also commented/posted more than I ever did on reddit already!
That you're not walking on eggshells.
My username/account was deleted when I (deservedly) berated a racist-sexist-homophobic guy. My comments were removed but his hateful posts remained.
So hopefully we won't get biased and power-tripping admins and mods here.
We will. But it's gonna be contained to instances and communities there and opening a new community on another instance is easy af
No karma
Much less cluttered UI. Very friendly communities.
i love being able to see individual upvote and downvote counts. the nuance is actually very important
Immediate comments without needing to refresh. Things are just immediately showing up, which makes it feel so alive
Unicode characters in display names.
It feels way more community focused. There's a distinct lack of corporate influence, which is great.
dreading the day when i see lemmy billboards
Clean and faster UI. old.reddit is good enough, but outdated.
Ooooh we can edit titles?
Way fewer bots. I don't think I realized how bad reddit was.
Man I'm not looking forward to when the bots find Lemmy.
When you sort by "New" it kinda refreshes in realtime.
I was literally trying to figure out how to disable that.
This also happens in the comments which is cool! Tho I can foresee it becoming rather annoying in high activity places.
Better UI
The smaller community.
I remember when the top post on Reddit had 10.000 upvotes... Today you can't interact anymore, just "consume".
This is a great point! Reddit today feels like forum Instagram
Feels more like old school forums instead of conglomorated shitpost: meme response, ironic response, [deleted] spam response bot response
The friendly community
I'm happy I won't have to deal with seeing subreddits named _____porn, like DesignPorn. So immature and cringe
There are a ton of them, actually. There's like 10 on lemmy.ml if you search "porn" on https://browse.feddit.de/
That's unfortunate, I was hoping it wouldn't be a thing. Oh well, it's not a big deal
Yeah, the diversity means that there's bound to be content you dont like. Simple enough to just block the community though, and then they wont show up for you anymore.
There's a big red block button in the sidebar on desktop, and then you can also manage your blocks in your settings page.
Not overloaded with porn. Reddit is full of bots and porn accs. Not the greatest issue ofc
Why that was the best part for me 😂. Will get on it to make Lemmy feel more like home 🏃.
No offense, and I've seen several people requesting porn, but to me that kind of lowers the level or seriousness of a community. I'm OK if a platforms allows NSFW content, but there's a difference between actively browsing for porn and getting spam to your account. Porn is a very distracting stuff with addiction potential.
To me the best thing about forums, reddit, lemmy, etc. is the aggregation of general human knowledge, and it's better if you don't have to swim over a load of attention-grabbing content for it.
At least in the "fediverse" it's possible to maintain a much cleaner separation between those communities. Like, the server I'm on has this very explicit programming focus (Can't believe this domain name is a thing 😂) and I'm sure there's a server out there for horny peeps who just want to look at porn. Both can have drastically different rules in regards to posting, commenting and such and if a server's admin pulls the plug for one reason or another, the rest of the "network" stays up. 🤷♀️
Would just be nice if there was a way to backup, sync or migrate accounts between federated servers. I expect things will fluctuate quite a bit as many of us take refuge in various servers. Especially if reddit moderation bots get crippled, third party apps die and old.reddit gets the boot, flooding lemmy/kbin servers with more users than some can handle, financially-speaking.
I was joking for the most part. What I meant was NSFW content. Like nothing too much like porn, like r/upvotebecauseboobs or r/hornyjail, stuff like that. I mean, I like tech news and being serious, but I also like to see something just whacked from time to time... or some boobies 😂. What can I say, I'm married 🤷 😂.
God I miss r/ihavesex.
What was it about, like memes?
It is a meme sub about people who can't keep their sexual lives to themselves and have to tell the world that they in fact, have sex. No offense, but your "btw, I'm in a relationship" comment perfectly fits the bill.
None taken, I know I can be spammy 😂.
Cool, might open a community loke that 👍.
so far at least there are no constant annoying automod filters like 'this title needs to be 250 characters not including spaces, have a [i'm a dumbass] flair, etc etc'
it does nothing to improve the quality of anything and makes the whole UX more annoying. on r/gonewildaudio there's like a paragraph of flairs
The app emoji is cool. I think on Jerboa app, this mouse is so sweet
It's a Jerboa, which is an actual animal!
Oh, wow, didn't know that, thanks Btw super sweet animal!
Currently it feels like a reverse Golgafrincham situation. We got rid of the useless third by jumping ship. Let's convince them we got swallowed by an enormous mutant Star-Goat 🤩 https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrincham
You are not called an orc if you disagree with whatever The Washing Post or other USA state media says.
I actually really like that the community is smaller. It feels like an actual community and not a hoard of strangers.
When I click a post it actually opens a new page for the post instead of some weird window overlaying the feed. Things are simplified and easier to use and understand. I don't feel like I'm constantly trying to work around the platform.
The "small" community relative to reddit.
This post is kinda related
More engagement. I think the vast majority of Reddit was lurkers. This feels more like a community.
Lemmy doesn't seem to have the "hive mind" that reddit has. So much shit on reddit is performative and predictable.
One nice UI feature is that there's a "view source" button when viewing comments and posts, which lets you see exactly what markup the poster used.
I was concerned of the amount of users not being enough to generate content, but so far I have been proven wrong. And the quality of the content is much better. At least for now.
My guy the Reddit admins actively try to lie about and gaslight the community, even after evidence is publically stacked against them, Reddit is far from "alright".
Reddit.com is more than just the people running it.
It's not gaslighting, just regular old lying.
"No, that phone call that was publicly released is wrong, Apollo dev is the devil"
Sounds like gaslighting to me.
Sounds like you don't understand the concept.
From Webster's dictionary:
Gaslighting - noun: the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one's own advantage. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gaslighting definition 2
Sounds like YOU don't understand the concept.
Give this a read: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/04/15/gaslighting-definition-relationship-abuse-response/
Are you saying there isn't an abusive relationship between Reddit's mods and community?
"banned because of spam" go brrr
The only reason I reluctantly keep my account is because of a few niche communities I lurk and sometimes comment in. And I'll add that Reddit is usable thanks to the old interface + uBlock Origin and third-party apps on mobile (and we all know what's happening next); I'd call it "alright" just as a euphemism for "not (yet) as bad as Facebook or Instagram".
With that attitude it won't be.
There really are no viable, slipstream alternatives. The only entities with the resources to spin up a massive, centralized social link aggregator and community-based discussion system would be a handful of companies in big tech (Facebook, Twitter, Alphabet/Google, etc.), and none of them have platforms that are appropriately analogous to reddit. Even if they did, three weeks to migrate and onboard millions of users is a tall order.
Lemmy is the closest thing I've found so far in terms of a similar structure and UX, and while it's still pretty rough around the edges (mainly in terms of UX and infrastructure redundancy), the decentralized nature enables it to scale horizontally without requiring resource expansion for a single player. It definitely needs some work to optimize instance implementation and capacity-based promotion, but I believe it has a lot of potential.
You're in for a disappointment