I am a reddit refugee. Keep seeing that this is supposed to be somehow better than Reddit. As far as I can tell, it follows a similar format, less restrictive on posts being removed I suppose. But It looks like people still get down vote brigaded on some communities. So I’m curious, how it’s better?
It’s not flogging your data, forcing you into using shitty apps or generally selling you for stock value.
Typical comment quality is off the chain. Leddit has been going downhill for years in this area.
Can you explain why? Not sure I follow
Pun threads
Puns are their own rewords!
Pubes are there own returds!
- fucking every redditor now
No spez?
I’m here. :)
When you think about it, every sarcastic comment you make on Reddit now makes Google better. Reddit is too corporate, but who wouldn’t want to spread seriously good information on Reddit, to be picked up by the google machine? People need to know about the benefits of eating a little piece of rock a day.
The only benefits I care about is that Lemmy has “third party” apps
LEMMY HAS THE CRUMBGRABBER. THAT IS WHY REDDIT HAS NO CHANCE.
All hail the CRUMBGRABBER!
Honestly, it looks like Lemmy sadly became more and more similar to Reddit in that regard. I remember times when it was different and people were way more civil.
That’s not to say all good people are gone, and if you move away from politics and Linux, there’s a treasure trove of nice and welcoming people in here.
In any way, welcome!
Overall, it isn’t yet. Reddit has more developed niche subs, more in-depth posts and comments, and enough content even if you filter out the low effort stuff. Where Lemmy is better is that it is decentralized and not run like a corporate dictatorship with zero respect for its users the way Reddit is.
It’s not commercial. Your data isn’t being harvested to advertise to you.
When one instance enshittifies itself you can just block it.
Also, no greedy little pigboy Spez.
In terms of how it’s structured, it has the potential to be better, but also the potential to be not much better. in terms of the community and getting downvoted for petty reasons - it’s the same as Reddit. Welcome to Lemmy!
I’ve been avoiding the political BS and finding it much better. Easier to avoid the vitriolic stuff here too. And you can turn off seeing comment and post scores so downvotes don’t exist for me.
I haven’t seen nearly as many obvious rage bait bot posts either.
Lemmy isn’t a single website like reddit.com is. It’s rather a collection of decentralised servers (“instances”) offering the same service (one very similar to reddit). It’s often compared to e-mail - just as Gmail users can talk to Outlook users, lemmy.world users can post and comment on lemmy.ml from their home instance.
What this does is it removes the centralised aspects of Reddit - if a community has powertripping mods one can make an alternate community (like on Reddit). But this goes a step above - powertripping server admins can be reigned in by simply switching instances.
There are not quite as many trolls yet and at least some mods are rational.
The admins are about the same degree of terrible though, but without the fascist coddling.
