What makes Lemmy superior to reddit? Give me your reason

  • @BlinkerFluid@lemmy.ml
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    1911 months ago

    No one owns it.

    In my experience, the major flaw of every social media site. Some asshat owns it and wants to profit from it.

  • Chris RemingtonM
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    1911 months ago

    Lemmy doesn’t track its users. Lemmy doesn’t data-mine its users. Lemmy doesn’t cram advertising down its users’ necks.

    Reddit does all this bullshit.

    • Sky CatoOP
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      1111 months ago

      This is why I moved on to Fediverse in the first place. Plus everyone here is nice and Lemmy encourages healthy discussion.

  • anji
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    1611 months ago

    The control provided to users by Fedi is the main reason for me to be on Lemmy. I run my own instance and nobody can tell me I can’t use a particular app, or I can’t tailor my experience a certain way. Reddit seems to be going to shut off their API access and force everyone to use either their terrible app or their terrible “new” UI. This won’t happen here.

    Hopefully Lemmy will keep growing content-wise and communities will spring up to replace what’s currently good about Reddit. Beehaw is already good place to hang out.

  • alex [they/them]
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    1411 months ago

    Setting your language. This means instead of having one all encompassing “French” community I can post in the “regular” ones but set the locale as French. It’s amazing and it also makes Lemmy much less US-centric than Reddit.

  • @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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    1311 months ago

    The ability to federate. I have virtually no fear of being addicted to a platform whose owners are malicious

  • alyaza [they/she]M
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    1311 months ago

    one obvious benefit that is true of smaller platforms generally is “more personal connections”. it is difficult to meaningfully engage with people on reddit as people and not just usernames; past a certain point it all necessarily must blend together and communities stop being meaningful. that in kind enables a lot of the worse behavior you see on reddit, i think–it’s pretty trivial to just think of anyone that mildly inconveniences you or disagrees with you as a subhuman idiot at that point (and to talk with them accordingly), whereas here that’s harder to fall into because you’ll pretty quickly get to know who’s who.

      • @uthredii@beehaw.org
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        11 months ago

        Yeah I guess so, I always seem to struggle with it for some reason 🤣

        Maybe the previewer on lemmy is easier to use, I don’t know

        • @nachtigall@feddit.de
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          511 months ago

          Maybe the previewer onenny is easier to use, I don’t know

          True! It’s so nice to see what your message will look like before you send it.

  • @leanleft@lemmy.ml
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    311 months ago

    benefits exist. it doesnt really matter to most people.
    reddit is a site with a high population. sometimes thats good or sometimes its not.

  • @X77@lemmy.ml
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    111 months ago

    Nothing really. You can not even write what you really think or be modded or banned. The platform of freedom and free speach is actually a platform of slavery.

    • alyaza [they/she]M
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      211 months ago

      The platform of freedom and free speach is actually a platform of slavery.

      as far as i’m aware neither lemmy.ml nor lemmy as a platform claim to be either of these things, and i think it’s safe to say the platform is better for doing that–even if it remains clearly deficient in some technical and social respects. if that’s what you’re looking for i’d probably seek another alternative (or learn to self-host an instance, i suppose)