You must log in or register to comment.
Lemmy doesn’t have u/spez, so it’s already infinitely better
It also has you too which is cool.
It has support for 3rd party apps.
That’s why I’m here!
Here on principle for the 3rd party apps.
I realize the hardware and software cost money for a site. I’m ok with paying either by a friendly use of ads, or a decent subscription.
I was on the verge of starting to pay for Reddit to stop the ads when I used the website. I happily paid for my 3rd party app. But that was right when Reddit nerfed the subscriptions and went to their current version. And then stopped the API.
I happily paid for the Lemmy 3rd party app. I need to look into donating for the server.
No one is trying to monetize the platform. Sure, our posts and comments are being scraped, but the platform itself isn’t being managed with returns for investors in mind.
I find the moderation is better here. My posts aren’t being removed because they didn’t match some forced title formatting or some other arbitrary reason.
People also aren’t just redirecting people to decade old posts and megathreads which is nice.
Think about what AskReddit is like with the same kind of posts over and over again because they decided to limit posters to the title text.
I had a really positive interaction with a mod on a NSFW instance. I commented on how I thought the dude was working in an unsafe manner…
I wasn’t banned! If this has been reddit I would have been banned and told to Fuck off.
It’s nice to have a place to go that’ll engage in conversation and education when needed.
If communities end up with hundreds of thousands or millions of users, you will start to see more rules here too.
I’m not saying any specific rule choices are good or bad. But they become increasingly necessary when the user count crosses a threshold.
That’s part of the reason I am hoping Lemmy doesn’t become the new Reddit with a total migration of users. I like the smaller userbase as selfish as that is. I feel like at least with the federated nature of Lemmy we would see less power mods that run a majority of communities preventing crosspromotion with other communities/instances and limiting feedback.
I get why rules need to be added as a community grows but with Reddit this seems to mean a lot of micromanagement over things that wouldn’t effect enjoyment of subreddit members and adding hurdles for new or infrequent users
Here’s a hypothetical example that kind of goes along with my previous comment:
I want to post in a Elder Scrolls game modding subreddit asking about quality of life mods for games before Skyrim. It gets removed because the subreddit requires you to tag a specific game using a format like [Oblivion] or [Morrowind] for easier searching and sorting. The issue is I am not just talking about one game and tagging every TES game since Arena would eat up a lot of title space.
In the grand scheme of things it makes sense but it’s annoying to deal with especially if the subreddit doesn’t clearly prompt users on why their post was removed and people who are just popping by to ask a quick question might be discouraged.
I am hoping we don’t see things like that become the norm on Lemmy.
I think a lot of the annoyance that comes from rules similar to your example is the fact it is a system bolted on to whatever is available in Reddit. And the UI/UX is almost always TERRIBLE.
If it was easier to make clean and functional post/comment flows this would be less of a burden.
Your points still stand. But I do think a large proportion of the friction from many rules comes from Reddits architecture. And frankly, the fact that they support apps. If it had stayed just the website, we would have probally seen more movement on improving these flows. But it’s deemed too complicated to support in two formats. Also, Reddit probally just does not give a shit.
I would hope Lemmy could be a place where it’s easy to deploy systems for proper labeling and tagging in niche communities that gain a lot from better taxonomies and other systems.
This again?
A social network/online community can either be significantly profitable or healthy for its users. Pick one
3rd party app support is probably my #1. Community is no different here than my 15 year experience on reddit, at least here there’s less spam comments. My posts asking for advice or help here are also usually met with more productive support here.
Oh and no ads or sponsored content. I haven’t even back to reddit since the exodus but before I left the sponsored content was so annoying.
I can use whichever method of access I want while not having to deal with 26263663 different types of data harvesters.
The few ads there are are easily recognizable spam posts, as opposed to sanctioned ads camouflaged as user content.
Fewer reposts.
Generally better quality members.The only reason it is better right now is a combination of obscurity and people not grasping how federation works as a slight barrier to entry means it has fewer people who all want to be here instead of somewhere else.
Reddit went downhill when it because universally popular and enough people were there to attract jerks who just go where everyone else is and overwhelm moderation. So I don’t want federation to become the standard, as other less popular options won’t be there to attract the attention seeking jerks that are drawn to the popular sites.
Popularity ruins social media because the most popular place is where the worst tend to congregate and overwhelm moderation.
Federation has a built-in solution to address this. Once the garbage starts overtaking quality, you can just move to an instance with a stricter federation policy. Traditional services do not provide this option.
Lemmy is so much more performant than reddit… It is crazy! Try going to reddit’s deskop site and then go to a Lemmy site…
Also, reddit is now blocking VPN users, unless you are logged in…
And finally, if I use reddit, I am contributing to a rich guy buying his nth car/house/yacht… On Lemmy, I am not enriching the wallets of the already rich.
Well said! I also find that the community here is less toxic and more intelligent, but maybe that’s just my biased perception
No profit motive.
It’s open source, has no ads by default, supports custom clients and is built with Rust which means it’s very performant. Sure, it lacks some features that are very useful like flairs. And the moderation tools could be improved.
Reddit’s website is literally shit and bloated as fuck. While Lemmy is pretty minimalistic. Some UI improvements to make it more pretty could be made but it’s fine to be honest.
It’s owned by people, not a person.
Lot less bloat
I can see real upvotes and downvotes.
