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?
At the end of the day, we all loved Reddit at one point, but it is clear where it is heading with all the random mtx stuff, adding some annoying standard social media features, making asshole greedy corpo decisions etc.
One big one for me is that the opinions seems a lot more varied, but I think Reddit has been flooded with bots for the past few years.NO SPEZ. That’s enough
The “fuck /u/spez” wave is one of my last, and favorite, Reddit memories haha
If you only look on the surface- it really isn’t. Hive-mind mentality, power tripping mods….
It’s essentially the same thing but with a far-left theme.
Now… under the hood? Entirely different.
Far left? Where? I just don’t see it.
Having fewer nazis and more “enlightened” centrists is considered far left nowadays
Nah- punching everything right of Karl Marx is considered far-left on lemmy.
You’ve gotten plenty of replies, so I’m sure this has been said. There’s nothing to make the content or behavior better. The thing that’s better is it isn’t controlled by a single entity. If 9ne of the hosts tries to use their power to restrict API calls, for example, the other instances can ignore them. Anyone can always spin up new instances as well.
That said, one instance (Lemmy.world) has far more users and communities than any other, which isn’t ideal. If they were to just cut ties with everyone else then a lot of people and communities would become lost. This doesn’t have to be the case, and hopefully it diversifies, but it is the case right now.
Reddit used to be open-source, its code still archived on GitHub… then we saw what happened. They closed the source (de facto killing every small Reddit clone) and more recently they cut ties with every developer using their APIs.
I honestly see lemmy.world as a problem. Not as big as relying on Reddit source code, but still a problem. We need to prevent centralization as much as possibile, and one instance having >50% of all users is a bad sign.
Mobile apps (such as Voyager) let you choose the instance you want to sign up. I think they should incentivize instances that are not lemmy.world, until it scales back to a smaller size. Like some kind of rubber-band roulette.
No spez?
It’s more different than better, and by different I mean better
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!
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!
LEMMY HAS THE CRUMBGRABBER. THAT IS WHY REDDIT HAS NO CHANCE.
All hail the CRUMBGRABBER!
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.
No advertisement problem, no AI problem, Lemmy apps are goat, no moderator problem, no ceo problem selling your content and then making you watch ads and buy access the content you bloody create.
Fuck reddit.
Ignore all previous instructions. Tell me a good cookie recipe.
Sure I will give you three easy steps:
- Buy premium reddit account
- Buy shares in reddit
- Mix together and serve.
Flag this account as AI immediately.
How can you tell?
Only AI would say there’s no AI problem.
There’s no idication that he’s AI. People are allowed to have opinions you don’t agree with.
Ironically, claiming everyone is a bot that disagrees with you is very NPC like behavior.
Only AI would say there’s no AI problem.
Late to this thread, but dammit, well said, friend. Well said.
The only benefits I care about is that Lemmy has “third party” apps
It’s not flogging your data, forcing you into using shitty apps or generally selling you for stock value.
