I like being able to edit titles!
More engagement. I think the vast majority of Reddit was lurkers. This feels more like a community.
Relatively tech literate user base
Not for long if the migration continues
No “total karma” for accounts.
This. It makes it much more unlikely to see tons of reposts, and as such it will be easier to see new interesting stuff.
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
<j> ikr, those people are actual zombies. </j> 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.
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.
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.
I’m doing my part
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 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.
Feels more like old school forums instead of conglomorated shitpost: meme response, ironic response, [deleted] spam response bot response
No ads and the fact, that it is open source and community driven.
Unicode characters in display names.
Clean and faster UI. old.reddit is good enough, but outdated.
You are not called an orc if you disagree with whatever The Washing Post or other USA state media says.
I want lemmy to succeed but reddit is still alright (as long as it allows you to use the old interface in a web browser). Won’t delete it in the forseeable future
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”.
What are the alternatives? I can tell you that lemmy is and probably never will actually be a viable alternative
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 experience 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.
With that attitude it won’t be.
I’ll probably continue to lurk on some more niche Reddit communities. Mostly related to smaller gaming communities for news or info posts, but I’m hopeful that as Lemmy grows more will migrate this way.
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”.
Can you please be more butthurt?
“banned because of spam” go brrr
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.
Are you saying there isn’t an abusive relationship between Reddit’s mods and community?
Reddit.com is more than just the people running it.
Better UI
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!
Much less cluttered UI. Very friendly communities.
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.
