It’s way less addictive. Seriously, the last time I opened my Lemmy client was 5 days ago. Back when I was active on Reddit, I spent 3 of my waking hours on it every day, that’s 21 hours a week.
Reddit wouldn’t always let me say what I wanted. They would block/shadowban/mute me. Which I realized is inherently wrong in a society that intends to be a democracy.
So I hope Lenny is better in that regard. If I say something I don’t want it taken away. I want it to have a chance to be challenged for what it is.
Once I realized this, I considered how many other probably healthy opinions that never got seen because mods, rules, restrictions and probably also financial and political biases ruined their chances of being challenged and seen in the first place. If only specific opinions are allowed, the whole site is inherently biased. I don’t like that. I bet that would explain the dumb stuff I’ve seen there. Because if nobody can challenge an opinion it will never grow.
3rd party app support is probably my #1. Community is no different here than my 15 year experience on reddit, at least here there’s less spam comments. My posts asking for advice or help here are also usually met with more productive support here.
Oh and no ads or sponsored content. I haven’t even back to reddit since the exodus but before I left the sponsored content was so annoying.
It’s open source, has no ads by default, supports custom clients and is built with Rust which means it’s very performant. Sure, it lacks some features that are very useful like flairs. And the moderation tools could be improved.
Reddit’s website is literally shit and bloated as fuck. While Lemmy is pretty minimalistic. Some UI improvements to make it more pretty could be made but it’s fine to be honest.
Lemmy is so much more performant than reddit… It is crazy! Try going to reddit’s deskop site and then go to a Lemmy site…
Also, reddit is now blocking VPN users, unless you are logged in…
And finally, if I use reddit, I am contributing to a rich guy buying his nth car/house/yacht… On Lemmy, I am not enriching the wallets of the already rich.
I hate supporting and being fucked in the ass by corporations
I think if the population was just slightly smarter and less submissive then more people would use and support open source software. I don’t even mean lemmy, just OSS in general
Reddit feels like a weirdly dead place. Depending on the sub, there can be a lot of posts and comments but it’s very hard to engage with. You need to comment early and what conversation there is decays very early. A lot of it is fake too, with bots stealing comments to repost.
It’s a little bit better on smaller subs, but Reddit has a way of funneling everything into a larger subs if there is one for a topic, so outside of niche topics they tend to be ghost towns.
Lemmy is more like a small, weird forum. It’s hardly perfect but at least it doesn’t feel like a bunch of chat bots talking to each other.
The top comment of this post would be some reposted for the 8000th time “inside joke” on reddit. For me, it didn’t matter what the post was about, every comment section was the same. It was especially frustrating when the post itself encouraged conversation and the top comment would be completely off topic.
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