Wow, didn’t expect to make it here, thanks 😄
Love the proactiveness, great to see!
May I make one suggestion for your standard response? One of the things many of us hated about Reddit was the removal of third-party apps. Having an ecosystem of great ones, be they Voyager, Thunder, Sync, etc, is a fantastic benefit over Reddit.
Perhaps use that fact, and then provide your preference? Makes me wonder if there is a central list of apps anywhere, actually…
Good point, I could probably emphasize that a bit more.
https://www.lemmyapps.com/, it’s mentioned in the post
I would also mention that you need to spend quite a bit of your time blocking Japanese cartoon communities lol
Lemmy is so much better than Reddit it is no contest. Lemmy just needs a bit more growth.
I honestly appreciate the current scale of Lemmy. It feels nostalgic of oldskool forums or even oldskool reddit. But I can’t deny the a larger scale brings certain advantages that are almost essential for a modern online community. It also brings risks. I’m very curious to see where the future will lead lemmy and if it will be able to withstand the traps others haven fallen into.
Fully agreed. Lemmy‘s developers being tankies influences the whole ecosystem negatively. The strong presence of FOSS activists here adds another group of ideologues. Even mods outside lemmy.ml will moderate along similar hard ideological lines. Political content is often an echo chamber on lemmy. Downvotes for disagreements are the norm. The mods are more arbitrary than even those on Reddit. I’ve seen many times how they delete posts and replies, just because they offer disagreeing information. There are lots of unwritten arbitrary rules. Users are banned and the communities they founded are deleted with all their posts. I’ve seen lots of useful content removed through this mechanism. Overall moderation is far more arbitrary here than on Reddit.
Most other Reddit alternatives were filled with racists and cp. Lemmy is a haven for tankies.
Feel free to report such behavior on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
The important thing about the fediverse is that you can federate with Lemmy but use an alternative platform. If you don’t like the devs of Lemmy there is mbin and piefed
Reddit has its own “left-lite” communities (called left lite because they definitely aren’t as far left as grad or ml) that are very popular and hit the front page constantly. The difference is that Lemmy leftists are intolerant of liberals (and vice-versa). Hopefully a bit better balance is struck here but I’ve been able to curate my feed to make liberal-leftist conflict less visible.
Reddit has a ton of propaganda, too. You won’t escape it online. It’s worse on Reddit though because it’s bigger, so a more obvious target to astroturf.
It’s fresh, for lack of a better word. Reddit is the same 5 questions on repeat in most subs. There are back corner niche groups that don’t exist here yet, but the main pages are mostly repetitive garbage.
And ten forward!
For me, I never had a Reddit account so I don’t have a basis of comparison.
I don’t even really care about the features, look, etc. I care that it’s decentralized and not owned by a corporation. That’s the beginning and end of it for me.
Lemmy isn’t perfect but everything it does is the best users can do to benefit the users.
Over time that matters the most as instead of enshitification you end up getting a progressively optimized app.
It’s the slow and steady wins the race approach.