7 things, tap to expand
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Moderation: choosing when to ban people or not, and acting on it promptly.
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Blocking people, since you can block communities (needed to use a 3rd party app to actually do this on reddit).
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Filtering out/organising porn, seperating it from SFW content (Reddit tricks you into seeing porn all the time but lemmy holds it on seperate instances.)
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less addictive design
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comment formatting is made easy and seems to have more options.
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honestly has more soul and more polite interactions. Reddit is good in places but not consistently/overall.
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Doesn’t demand you install its app, browser is fine.
Doesn’t demand you install its app, browser is fine.
I wish I knew how to do the heart emoji …
Lemmy doesn’t have emoji reactions, you need to be on a piefed instance to do that
You need to put two spaces at the end of a line to get a proper line break
It’s an odd quirk of markdown.Or you can press enter twice like I did here if you don’t mind the extra space.
I actually have everything formatted the way I intended. Following your comment I did try and add more gaps to make the whole thing more readable/pleasant for people, but nothing changed in its appearance. Sorry if it’s hard to read
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3rd party apps for browsing
the real reason we’re all here
3rd party apps.
Reddit apps addicted me to ad free content delivered in the way Eternity for lemmy does, and that’s no longer available for reddit.
Pretty good at not being Reddit which is my number one reason for using it.
The UI is just way, way, WAY less obnoxious.
I do wish it had the niche communities though. Stuff for individual games, etc.
– Frost
Superiority complex.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
What is a reddit?
A miserable pile of posts!
Federating with mbin and Piefed
Honestly everything other than variety and scale of communities. It’s not as big of a compliment as it sounds like though - Reddit is almost unspeakably shitty. Pay a visit to the front page or whatever they call it now and be greeted by nothing but ragebait, hornybait, gender war content, political discussion with zero critical or individual thinking, and 500 popular communities that are completely undifferentiated because they form a singular bland monoculture circle jerk that just repackages the day’s hot topic in whatever shoehorned way it can into every subreddit (Lemmy is starting to do this too though yay…). The only difference between it and tiktok is the UI tbh
this comment is poetry.
lemmy does totally lack the vibrant niche communities. i loved the circlejerk communites especially ragging on the stupid stuff in hobby subs, but that can’t be here because the mainstream hobby communities have zero users or activity.
I feel like folks are a lot more willing to be polite and have a discussion versus an argument. Granted, I suspect the federation process and finding a host helps with that.
The only things it DOESN’T do better is have a large number of users and has the same problems with poor moderation (because they are both just randos with no real checks or balances to their modicum of power so it’s very easy to abuse).
It is less addictive.
The !superbowl@lemmy.world. No doute.
Crossposting from another fediware. Can’t do that outside the fediverse, of course.The mods are significantly less arbitrary in enforcing rules, with the exception of the instances that we all know. There are still some goofy exceptions, but by and large the mods are less power trippy.
