I am a reddit refugee. Keep seeing that this is supposed to be somehow better than Reddit. As far as I can tell, it follows a similar format, less restrictive on posts being removed I suppose. But It looks like people still get down vote brigaded on some communities. So I’m curious, how it’s better?

  • Der_Fossyler@feddit.org
    28·
    3 months ago

    No Ads, federated, Open Source, No big coorporation, community driven, no investors and stock market push, decentralized is the future IMHO.

    • OfficerBribe@lemm.ee
      37·
      3 months ago

      While decentralised systems can be useful it will not be the future. Initially everything was decentralised and then we moved to centralised systems because they are easier to manage, easier to secure, cheaper. The main benefit for decentralisation is that you are not tied to single organization that dictates all the rules. If reddit would have better management, I would move back.

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    3 months ago

    It’s not owned by a greedy soulless corporation with a pigboy in control. There’s more assholes on here (the AKSHUALLY is quite strong) but there’s less hivemind.

    • Magister@lemmy.world
      6·
      3 months ago

      the AKSHUALLY is quite strong

      lol, yeah true, same as the linux community here is pretty much Arch BTW, but it’s good-natured

      • Dave@lemmy.nz
        5·
        3 months ago

        I think the arch thing is just a meme. I asked a genuine question about which distro to use and got a range of suggestions but none of them were arch.

        • FutileRecipe@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 months ago

          about which distro to use and got a range of suggestions but none of them were arch.

          I think Debian is usually the strongest contender here.

    • pooberbee (any)@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 months ago

      My baseless opinion is that having a variety of instances with varying ethoses means that there’s a good home instance for everyone (not just the verysmart, young, white, male, liberal a la Reddit), and federation means that that variety of people are intersecting and interacting a lot more than if instances were completely separate. At the same time, it still feels like a small community, or maybe a bunch of small communities. There seems to be a lot less of the snarky clapbacks and unpopular opinions getting nuked that’s typical of other social media.

      • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        (not just the verysmart, young, white, male, liberal a la Reddit)

        Nope, we’ve also got the verysmart middle-aged white male liberals here, and some Communists too!

      • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        There seems to be a lot less of the snarky clapbacks

        And almost no low-effort, “cult of personality” mememetic responses. I was going to list some but it’s been a year since I’ve been on that wretched site and I’ve purged my mind of them. But you know, the ones where you can basically predict the top comment before opening the page, probably propagated by the prevalence of bots on the site.

    • suction@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      The akshually might be stronger, but the cultish behaviour of specialised subreddits hasn’t quite arrived here yet so one can still have a faceted opinion about the stuff they discuss, while on Reddit it’s either “glory to our king” or “get the fuck out and watch your Dane Cook specials!!”

      • cheddar@programming.dev
        2·
        3 months ago

        Also awful people tend to use same awful instances, so you can block a lot of awful people in just a couple of clicks!

    • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldEnglish
      02·
      3 months ago

      but there’s less hivemind.

      The hive mind here is far stronger.

      • anti-anything microsoft
      • anti-anything google
      • unwarranted “just install Linux” everywhere
      • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
        0·
        3 months ago

        anti-anything google

        I hear that. Went through the technical reasons for the manifest V2 deprecation (if this is only to target ublock origin, why did they implement filter lists into the browser? Why does ublock origin lite work just fine?) and it got more downvotes than upvotes. Haters gonna hate I guess :))

        • mke@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 months ago

          Hey, I agree that MV3 brings benefits (such as better security for the extension ecosystem) and has technical merit, but it’s worth noting that uBlock’s main dev themselves said it won’t work as well. uBO Lite doesn’t work fine, it works. It’s also worse.

          And the same fundamental issue that affects ublock (the new API limits) affects everyone else trying to do the same job using extensions.

        • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc
          01·
          3 months ago

          I get the impression most lemmy users don’t have a lot of lived experience. Everyone deals in absolutes, and is unable to recognise nuance.

          Most contentious issues have a range of considerations, positive and negative.

      • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
        01·
        3 months ago

        Because Microsoft sucks and Google sucks and if you install Linux there’s 50% chance it’ll cure someone’s cancer. Also if you’re at a bar and your pickup line is “I use arch” it’ll be like the fucking Niagara falls. If you’re into guys even their ass will go sploosh when they hear that line.

        What I’m getting at is that we’re just a superior being.

      • NewNewAccount@lemmy.world
        02·
        3 months ago

        Agreed. Lots of reasonable opinions (not just my own) get downvoted here.

        I’ve never been a fan of using downvotes as a disagree button and the issue seems even worse here than Reddit.

        • mke@lemmy.world
          11·
          3 months ago

          The more I see how people use downvotes, the less I like them as a feature in general. I don’t downvote things anymore.

          • Everyone can upvote, which already brings the most popular content to the top. Why does the system need another dimension to it?
            • I often see unpopular comments at the bottom, with scores like +2 -9… The absence of downvotes wouldn’t make a difference in content ordering, because the previous comment is simply +4.
          • If I disagree with someone enough to act on it, it’s my rule to explain why. A minus one is nearly useless as feedback.
            • Then, once I’ve replied, what’s the point of downvoting? Everyone can read my thoughts.
            • Replies can be upvoted too, for people who think truth comes down to a battle of internet points.
          • If I honestly believe something is bad or harmful to the community, it should probably be reported, not (merely) downvoted.

          Downvotes as they are seem like outdated design on the human interaction level. They fail to iterate on years of knowledge gained since their inception.

  • mightyfoolish@lemmy.world
    12·
    3 months ago

    No company owns every single Lemmy instance. That’s the only guarantee you are getting; however, that’s where all of the tiny differences come from.

  • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    It’s a better crowd. Feels more like 2009 Reddit and forums. I can use whichever app I want

  • originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee
    10·
    3 months ago

    When people say Lemmy is better, they mean the software and the platform are better. You’re talking about the users of the two platforms. Lemmy users are still idiots, just like Reddit users, we just use Linux and don’t use chrome

      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
        0·
        3 months ago

        Same, literally can’t use Firefox (though i got an exception to install it) its blocked system wide from being able to access anything. Idk why the company hates FF so much.

        • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Maybe bc it blocks ads? :-P (More likely to reduce their costs of having to test everything on any non-Chrome browser.)

            • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              It does things very differently, and many webpage designers hate it with a passion - I don’t know of the details why - despite how it is a successor to Netscape Navigator, open source, and a competitor to the monopolistic Google’s Chrome. Maybe there are reasons for why it does what it does even, but it alienates people who enjoy the simplicity of just making pages work on Chrome, and then anyone else be damned.

                • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
                  2·
                  3 months ago

                  (Who the hell would downvote this comment - IE deserves to be made fun of at every opportunity!!?!!:-P - and within minutes too, you might have a stalker:-D)

                  Sigh, yes those were the days. The bad old days. Chrome Google was supposed to be our savior but…

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  • exanime@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 months ago

    It’s federated so much more unlikely to be enshitified by money interests.

    Right now the community is smaller and manageable so less bots and trolls

  • inbeesee@lemmy.world
    7·
    3 months ago

    I recently migrated here. I did so as a precaution, and still browse reddit sometimes .

    Reddit IPO’ed, and is now focused on making money. They removed the API to centralize it’s power and remove 3rd party apps. They threatened subreddits who protested, and shut some down. And have made sweeping changes to accommodate to advertisers.

    The straw that broke the snoo’s back was the CEO hinting at subreddit paywalls. I figured I would try to learn Lemmy again, and what do you know, it’s more serious, has better comments and posts, segmented even more than reddit with the distros, and fully free/open source.

    It also helps that I’m a huge computer nerd, and there’s a lot of that on here, but you can find your niche.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Welcome! Don’t take this wrong, but why didn’t you come sooner? Reddit has had paywalls for as long as I can remember. r/TheLounge is an example of a famous one but any subreddit could enable restricting themselves to premium only.

      • inbeesee@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 months ago

        That’s actually new information to me! The news was pointing to a broader push to subscriptions for subreddits site wide. Definitely not doing that.

        I also admit that I am deeply unhappy with reddits enshittification. I’ve been on reddit for over a decade and joined when I was in highschool. Moving was the last thing I wanted, but I’m more aware of the big-corp-monopoly we’re all suffering under. This is part of it.

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          I ripped the bandage off a few months before they shut down the API. I had to quit RIF cold turkey. I wanted it to be “my choice” if that makes sense. The official Reddit app just didn’t do it for me.

          I hope you enjoy your time here! I’ve liked it. My biggest piece of advice is to be the content you want to see. There is a lot less content here than Reddit. That’s good and bad. Good because you get bored a little easier and move on lol, but bad because it can get a little boring. It’s gotten a lot better though!

          The other thing, and this is just a pet peeve lol, is that the proper way to link to communities is like !community@instance. A lot of people try to do c/community which doesn’t work. If you do !community alone it will link to the local community which could totally not exist or have different rules etc.

          example: !programming@programming.dev

          • Socialist Mormon Satanist@lemmy.world
            18·
            2 months ago

            My biggest piece of advice is to be the content you want to see.

            Totally agree with this. BUT just know that for some Lemmy’s, they get suspicious pretty quick.

            My account is less than a month old. I found a vast hole of the kind of content I want to see, so I started posting a lot. Starting communities, replying to replies on my posts, etc.

            And pretty much every day I get called variations of being a troll, spammer, trumper and/or russian asset.

            Doesn’t keep me from posting, and I think it’s hilarious. But just a heads up to anyone reading. Tho this thread is old so maybe no one will. But I found this thread just now, so… lol

  • Origen@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 months ago

    I swapped because I refused to use their garbage fire of an app and they shut down my beautiful RIF. Unforgivable.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    Loony power tripping moderators can only ban you from their little bit rather than from the whole site.

  • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
    6·
    3 months ago

    For me its multiple reasons.

    I really like the aspect and feeling of a small bonded community. There are a lot of people that are fairly active on Lemmy and you see them quite often.

    The next thing is, that I personally had the experience, that people on Lemmy are much kinder than on Reddit. There are so many kind people on Lemmy and I had a lot of useful conversations that aren’t like two monkeys throwing poop at each other.

    What’s also a really good thing is, is the fact of redundancy and federation. The fact that there are multiple instances, each with a unique style and feeling, is good so that everyone can find an instance that suits their needs(or they can host their own one if they want to). There are also sometimes multiple communities for the same topic on difference instances. I as example have blocked lemmy.ml due to their modding behaviour and I don’t want to support this. This also means, that I won’t engage in their Linux and askLemmy community’s, but this isn’t to bad, since both have duplicates on other instances.

  • eezeebee@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    Ads look better in the official ad delivery app - download the app

    “Oh, you already have a third party app that you love? Too bad, we’re killing it.”

    Download the official app to view the rest of this comment

  • auzy@lemmy.world
    61·
    3 months ago

    So… Two things…

    I have a funny story regarding modding on Lemmy…

    Ran into two bad mods the other day (related to the same convo). But, gist of the story is, I got into a discussion with someone who heavily exaggerated and claimed I wanted to kill an entire minority, as I only 80% agreed with them (they were basically demanding government benefits which would cause a huge issue if applied to other communities which was required to be fair , and they couldn’t even set the parameters of the rules for it). A Beehaw admin freely ignored the outrageous comment that the other mod made, and branded me instantly as “starting a fight”.

    As I was deleting my Beehaw account, I noticed that same non-beehaw mod had actually been in a thread I had also posted in a month ago which was discussing more conservative people moving to Lemmy (I’m VERY left). They basically said in the discussion they were constantly needing to remove “conservative” and people who were trying to start fights . This was ironic because doing the huge exaggeration thing and calling someone a derogatory name is basically out of the conservative playbook (and they were certainly the only ones fighting), and anywhere else it would be seen as rediculous behavior.

    People in that thread though also made it sound like the rest of Lemmy was a cesspool. This colored my opinion of Lemmy and I realised my opinion came from that same thread, so, I didn’t want to leave beehaw, and only took the leap recently.

    I was actually hugely surprised by Lemmy World. Everyone is a lot more respectful here than I expected and I think its even a better safe space than beehaw, where . There are a lot more connected instances, so the bad actors get drowned out easier, and it promotes a healthy discussion, where science is encouraged. We might not all agree, but it’s a lot easier to avoid echo chambers. The science memes community is also AWESOME on Lemmy and beats anywhere else imho.

    Reddit on the other hand, doesn’t seem to have good moderation (most mods are unpaid and the power hungry ones will try to manage hundreds of communities). It has degraded into people fishing for karma , and has a higher percentage of abusive people who also likely abuse others on facebook (many aussie subs have degraded into far right wing where science is discouraged and people purposely try to push an echo chamber). THere are a lot of good mods here though, and if you don’t like a community, you can block it and find another one… The cool part is that I suspect over time, this will eventually keep mods honest.

    The biggest problem is that Reddit SHOULD have acted on FatPeopleHate, the Donald and Female Dating strategy. They didn’t act on jailbait either apparently. Those people established themselves permanently into the community, grew to some of the largest communities and the moment mods left, many of those same communities likely did a power grab too. Reddit staff don’t really care either, and since the people running the servers don’t seemingly care (similar to facebook), it simply encourages them