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what do you think lemmy does better than reddit?
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There’s at least less astroturfing and AI posing as real people, if nothing else.
I wonder if there are safe guards to stop a bot army from impacting the discourse, or if it’s just because it’s a less known platform.
I think any federated service is more vulnerable, because there’s no central oversight, e.g. of IPs used to create accounts.
Even without any code, you could easily register accounts at the 20 largest instances and upvote yourself. I’m sure some people will have done just that.
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Nah i saw some infections earlier today on few politcal posts. It was just blatantly calling ukrainians nazis and 2022 style Russian disinfo, and rt.com news. I got in trouble for reporting it by the admins, and was belittled by the crowd.
I mean the purpose of disinformation is to create disinformed people, so unless they have a very conspicuous activity history, idk why people assume any account posting that stuff is a bot
That’ll only hold true while the platform is not popular, unfortunately
I don’t think the platform will ever be popular. Picking an instance is a big enough barrier to entry to stop most people.
there is much astroturfing of russian policy on lemmy
is it astroturing it just a lot of smug young ideologues sitting in their basement blaming capitalism for their lack of happiness?
astroturing implies they get paid.
You don’t find it a bit ironic to be calling out people criticizing capitalism for making people miserable as “smug” while being incredibly smug?
Gender bending Linux stuff.
Definitely gets the not being a raging transphobic cesspool over reddit.
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Moderation: choosing when to ban people or not, and acting on it promptly.
Blocking people, since you can block communities (needed to use a 3rd party app to actually do this on reddit).
Filtering out/organising porn, seperating it from SFW content (Reddit tricks you into seeing porn all the time but lemmy holds it on seperate instances.)
less addictive design
comment formatting is made easy and seems to have more options.
honestly has more soul and more polite interactions. Reddit is good in places but not consistently/overall.
Doesn’t demand you install its app, browser is fine.
I wish I knew how to do the heart emoji ……
Lemmy doesn’t have emoji reactions, you need to be on a piefed instance to do that
You need to put two spaces at the end of a line to get a proper line break
It’s an odd quirk of markdown.
Or you can press enter twice like I did here if you don’t mind the extra space.
I actually have everything formatted the way I intended. Following your comment I did try and add more gaps to make the whole thing more readable/pleasant for people, but nothing changed in its appearance. Sorry if it’s hard to read
This place is what reddit was like 20 years ago
Slightly more political now, I feel like there used to be a lot more learning and sharing of culture. We did have some other oddballs though - flossdaily, Unidan, voilentacrez - not sure we have as much of that on the fediverse…at least not those that reach the front pages.
there are some lemmy powerusers i see frequently posting and pushing their weird little agendas.
just not very many of them.
I remember reddit being pretty political 20 years ago, too. It’s a lot more left-leaning here, though.
the politics was less extremist though. it was most libertarians being mad about stuff not being free enough, but generally being agreeable about most other stuff. libertarians weren’t calling to kill people over political differences, just telling them they were naive for trusting the government.
the world hadn’t yet been taken over by identity politics and the idea everyone is systematically oppressed and that perceived oppression justifies oppression against others.
Yeah, shortly before the Digg exodus was reddit’s best period imo
I think it was still a fun site through at least the first Place so I’d say peak was post-Digg
higher barrier of entry = a higher % of the posts are made by intelligent people.
obviously it’s still massively outweighed by the stupid shit, I’m just saying I see it more than I saw it on reddit.
Absolutely the truth for most Fediverse platforms. It takes cognitive effort to join and get started.
3rd party apps for browsing
the real reason we’re all here
Oh, here’s another. I’ve actually never had “the site” go down, since I moved here. Being federated, most of Lemmy is up, even when a single instance goes down.
My home instance went down once, so I just read along on another instance until it came back up.
Make a lemmy.world account if you want the “site going down all the time” experience.
Pretty good at not being Reddit which is my number one reason for using it.
Superiority complex.
There’s like twelve different client apps for Lemmy, right?
I left Reddit when they broke my favorite client app. Seemed destined to go down hill from there.
It feels less toxic here, or maybe I give less of a shit. I also enjoy the fact that I don’t get ads.
Oh yes. No ads is nice!
In my experience, Lemmy users tend to be more mature and less argumentative. You’ll find plenty of exceptions, though.
Yeah well I think u r wrong. Fite me.
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you sound like someone who blocked lemmy.ml
Perhaps my instance did (I don’t remember), but I haven’t personally.
Allowing me to post
Also fewer incels.
Still plenty of misogyny around unfortunately tho
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r/incels
They like the women only subs
UX if not UI
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
What is a reddit?
A miserable pile of posts!
Communism
I’m not a communist, but I upvoted this comment. Some may be insufferable, but the left slant here is refreshing.
Not even talking just about political discussions, there’s just an overall level of empathy, logic and rationality here that’s much higher than on reddit
There’s tons of liberalism on here too but I guess you can expect that with it becoming more popular.
You’re not wrong.
Federating with mbin and Piefed
Federate
Honestly, not much. It feels like Reddit Lite 10 years ago
Honestly everything other than variety and scale of communities. It’s not as big of a compliment as it sounds like though - Reddit is almost unspeakably shitty. Pay a visit to the front page or whatever they call it now and be greeted by nothing but ragebait, hornybait, gender war content, political discussion with zero critical or individual thinking, and 500 popular communities that are completely undifferentiated because they form a singular bland monoculture circle jerk that just repackages the day’s hot topic in whatever shoehorned way it can into every subreddit (Lemmy is starting to do this too though yay…). The only difference between it and tiktok is the UI tbh
this comment is poetry.
lemmy does totally lack the vibrant niche communities. i loved the circlejerk communites especially ragging on the stupid stuff in hobby subs, but that can’t be here because the mainstream hobby communities have zero users or activity.
I feel like folks are a lot more willing to be polite and have a discussion versus an argument. Granted, I suspect the federation process and finding a host helps with that.
Default comment sort. I stopped commenting on reddit because no one ever replied or voted, so I assume no one saw them. Here, there is more likelihood of interaction. I assume that’s because comments are sorted not by overall count by default.
The ability to hide scores and sitter entirely by new
The only things it DOESN’T do better is have a large number of users and has the same problems with poor moderation (because they are both just randos with no real checks or balances to their modicum of power so it’s very easy to abuse).
The !superbowl@lemmy.world. No doute.
Crossposting from another fediware. Can’t do that outside the fediverse, of course.
It is less addictive.
I think that the relative lack of content is actually a feature for this reason - sometimes I open Lemmy out of habit, but I see the same content and go do something more worthwhile instead.
Absolutely, even tho I would like to have more like minded communities and active engagement, I don’t actively have an issue with it being not.
The UI is just way, way, WAY less obnoxious.
I do wish it had the niche communities though. Stuff for individual games, etc.
– Frost
Literally everything except having the plethora of niche subs.
3rd party apps.
Reddit apps addicted me to ad free content delivered in the way Eternity for lemmy does, and that’s no longer available for reddit.
The mods are significantly less arbitrary in enforcing rules, with the exception of the instances that we all know. There are still some goofy exceptions, but by and large the mods are less power trippy.