Accessibility is a big plus. Reddit is opposed to 3rd party apps while their official app is appallingly stuttery and feature-incomplete.
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2024
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The operators have no problem with third-party clients.
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I stopped using Reddit around the great anime purge. Became an unfriendly place to hangout.
Why was there an anime purge?
I can see real upvotes and downvotes.
No. I didn't much like Reddit but I have never had so many problems with a social media site as I have with Lemmy. Right now there's 17 comments in my notifications page, but no way to access them because it just says "404 - page not found." And there's no way to view or erase them.
Lemmy has tons of connectivity problems also. On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd have to rate it minus 100. I've left Kbin and actually am no longer even using Lemmy but once in a grand while. I'm looking for other sites that will work better.
You're making complaints about Lemmy while posting from kbin and complaining about kbin bugs. Everything your pissing and moaning about is kbin. I also use kbin but I understand it's an alpha service that goes down for weeks on end.
I like them both equally.
Spez isn't in charge
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
It's owned by people, not a person.
It's owned by money, not people. I left with apis and 3rd party apps. Glad I did, quality has taken a real noise dive. Now I just read from old. If there's a reason, without logging in.
Parts are better, I like being able to block entire instances of troll users.
But I miss the constant barage of new content and a more active community.
I supose that I am still dealing with the aftermath of using Reddit for 8,5 years and suddenly dropping it even now after the better part of a year.
I am glad however that /u/spez isn't running things here, and I hope that he stubbs his toe hard once every 7-9 weeks for the forseeable future.
I have found that the Lemmy community as a whole seems to be quick with branding people fascist if they say anything even slightly less left than socialism in political discussions, though that has mostly been from Hexbear, so it is probably just a vocal minority.
foss, decentralised, no spez, api
It has support for 3rd party apps.
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.
I find the moderation is better here. My posts aren't being removed because they didn't match some forced title formatting or some other arbitrary reason.
People also aren't just redirecting people to decade old posts and megathreads which is nice.
Think about what AskReddit is like with the same kind of posts over and over again because they decided to limit posters to the title text.
If communities end up with hundreds of thousands or millions of users, you will start to see more rules here too.
I’m not saying any specific rule choices are good or bad. But they become increasingly necessary when the user count crosses a threshold.
Yeah most of my communities I don't even have much in terms of rules/haven't spelled things out. It's typically common sense.
As you get bigger... More order is needed to maintain common sense
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I had a really positive interaction with a mod on a NSFW instance. I commented on how I thought the dude was working in an unsafe manner...
I wasn't banned! If this has been reddit I would have been banned and told to Fuck off.
It's nice to have a place to go that'll engage in conversation and education when needed.
A social network/online community can either be significantly profitable or healthy for its users. Pick one
The only reason it is better right now is a combination of obscurity and people not grasping how federation works as a slight barrier to entry means it has fewer people who all want to be here instead of somewhere else.
Reddit went downhill when it because universally popular and enough people were there to attract jerks who just go where everyone else is and overwhelm moderation. So I don't want federation to become the standard, as other less popular options won't be there to attract the attention seeking jerks that are drawn to the popular sites.
Popularity ruins social media because the most popular place is where the worst tend to congregate and overwhelm moderation.
Federation has a built-in solution to address this. Once the garbage starts overtaking quality, you can just move to an instance with a stricter federation policy. Traditional services do not provide this option.
While it provides a level of mitigation, malicious actors can overwhelm the system as a whole by switching instances, creating new accounts, and other intentional actions. Moderation cannot scale indefinitely even with better tools.
If the vast majority of users moves to instances with stricter policies that will increase the moderation burden on those instances. Kind of like how on reddit the smaller subreddits were managed well and most of the trash were ruining the popular subs.
So the current solution works for now, and might scale better than a centralized system, but if it reaches a certain point it will either end up being fractured significantly or end up swinging back to centralization.
All of those are reasons I think lemmy's smaller population is a benefit right now and there is still plenty of room to grow.
I don't think the vast majority of users will ever be interested in the sort of atypical content that niche communities provide. They generally prefer the more mainstream stuff, it's kinda baked-in.
Also, I'm not talking about moderation, but federation. If you only federate with three instances, then only those three's users can interact with you. This does not increase any moderation burdens.
Lemmy doesn't have u/spez, so it's already infinitely better
It actually does (don't know which instance), but I doubt it's the same person.
At least not as an expensive leech at the head of the whole thing. He probably earns more on his own as what every single instance collects in donations.
It also has you too which is cool.
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