• Aermis@lemmy.world
    6·
    7 months ago

    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.

    • BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      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.

  • beSyl@slrpnk.net
    4·
    7 months ago

    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.

    • TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      7 months ago

      Well said! I also find that the community here is less toxic and more intelligent, but maybe that’s just my biased perception

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    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.

    • Victor@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 months ago

      Probably related: seems to me like the people here are just ever so slightly more level headed than on Reddit. Have barely ever gotten into so much as a heated discussion over here compared to Reddit.

      Then again, when I migrated, I kinda skipped trying to find equivalents of the more toxic subreddits/communities here on Lemmy. No publicfreakouts or shit like that. Just sound and wholesome stuff. Maybe more IT stuff as well.

  • asudox@lemmy.worldM
    2·
    7 months ago

    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.

  • soli@infosec.pub
    2·
    7 months ago

    Reddit feels like a weirdly dead place. Depending on the sub, there can be a lot of posts and comments but it’s very hard to engage with. You need to comment early and what conversation there is decays very early. A lot of it is fake too, with bots stealing comments to repost.

    It’s a little bit better on smaller subs, but Reddit has a way of funneling everything into a larger subs if there is one for a topic, so outside of niche topics they tend to be ghost towns.

    Lemmy is more like a small, weird forum. It’s hardly perfect but at least it doesn’t feel like a bunch of chat bots talking to each other.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    • Open-source; no one party has monopoly control over the codebase.

    • Federated; no one party has monopoly control over the existing network.

    • The operators have no problem with third-party clients.

  • neidu2@feddit.nl
    1·
    7 months ago

    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. Yes, that includes YOU

  • Guncle@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    7 months ago

    The top comment of this post would be some reposted for the 8000th time “inside joke” on reddit. For me, it didn’t matter what the post was about, every comment section was the same. It was especially frustrating when the post itself encouraged conversation and the top comment would be completely off topic.