Lemmy in every technical way but to get information about non-political stuff, hobbies, diy etc. Reddit’s numbers just means it’s king, for now. The continued enshittification of the place will ensure it falls in time.
Lemmy by fucking MILES.
- no ads
- no enshittificafion
- federated ecosystem
- OSS
- self-hostable
- no aggregate karma (so karma farming/selling is completely meaningless)
- userbase genuinely feels a lot less dumb
- loads of other things that I’m forgetting/too lazy to fully enumerate right now
Lemmy. Federation and the lack of a profit motive makes it much better.
I would also rather be surrounded by leftist vs liberal drama, rather than liberal vs fascist drama.
The latter is actually a good point. I had almost forgotten how constant and combative reddit was at times with the far-right peeps and incels and whatnot. At the time it had become so normal, one didn’t even think about it. Maybe offer alternative ideas (= argue) a while or just ignore, but now that you mention it, I don’t think there has been many situations like that here, for me at least. Not to say that the enlightened centrists aren’t very much the same in practice, and those I face here every now and then. They just aren’t nearly as bad in substance.
I haven’t touched reddit to browse it since I made my lemmy account. I still wind up there from an occasional search with no other relevant results.
The way lemmy functions is vastly superior to reddit IMO and I have no plans to return.
Pretty much the same here. This scratches the very same itch that reddit did, but has several bonuses on top.
This right here, other than a thread or two, I have not been back since I ditched it last June.
If you have the bandwidth, please try to bring the sub to lemmy. We’re lacking a lot of niche interest communities here.
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Once I started using Lemmy I never touched Reddit again. So I guess Lemmy.
Ive been enjoying Lemmy again after uninstalling reddit after growing tired of seeing nothing but bad news in my feed (probably something I could fix but at the same time I was supposed to have left the site anyways), reddit still has the edge in content but Lemmy is still a good time killer for me.
Are you serious? We’re on Lemmy.Definitely Reddit.
Same. I have trade and niche hobby interests that don’t have critical mass here.
Conversations are better here tho
Consider that I’m free to use either of these, and that we are having this conversation here, on Lemmy.
Nevertheless, the thread has been interesting.
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Expand on this if you don’t mind. In what way does Lemmy disappoint you in how it resembles Reddit?
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Fair enough. I’m not into most of that behavior either except for maybe the occasional low-effort shit post.
Can I ask why you dislike /s?
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It’s really a nice feeling when strangers on the internet can read your comment and get what you’d written in the right context - even if that context is an obscure in-joke. But there are a lot of people on the internet and a lot of real assholes that might non-sarcastically say whatever crazy thing you’re joking at…
Especially when it comes to neuro-divergent folks, I think the /s is quite helpful. People want to be in on your joke. It’s fun to connect with humor on the internet… and omitting a /s makes it extremely unlikely that some folks, especially those on the autism spectrum, will be able to share that moment with you… instead, it’s more likely to be read as an attack or at least yet another disappointing failure of humanity and compassion playing out over the web.
So if people don’t seem to get your joke when you omit the /s, please do realize that you’ve made your speech less accessible and some people are getting offended by your speech and it isn’t their fault - it’s yours. That said, if you enjoy having more arcane jokes and occasionally being downvoted into oblivion, then nobody is going to force you to /s.
If you’re explaining every single joke in the same sentence as the joke (which is what /s is), it’s not funny. Humour is not, nor has it ever been, about inclusion. It is about being funny. Not universally funny; just funny to people who understand and appreciate the joke.
i find that people who cry about this-or-that is destroying humor or whatever, are pretty much universally bad at being funny. maybe up your game and stop blaming punctuation.
- performative pearl-clutching level seems higher on Lemmy
Lemmy, overall. There are things I miss from Reddit but whenever I browse it now it’s just so full of advertising.
After almost a year of being Reddit free, I have been peeking back in there lately. It just doesn’t hit the same but I do lurk in some subs just because of the volume of content.
I do enjoy Lemmy though. I don’t feel as intimidated to make comments and like to feel we’re building something from the grass roots here.
Same for me. There are some interests I have (mostly niche games) that just don’t have the population to have any sort of traction here. I don’t comment or vote there anymore, and I’m only still logged in on my main PCs because I didn’t bother logging out. Deleted all my old comments and posts.
Honestly also some very non niche things that are big on reddit aren’t much of a thing here. Like the Netherlands subreddit is the second largest non English speaking sub. It’s barely a thing on Lemmy.
