Reddit definitely has more users and more communities that don't exist here but I prefer lemmy because no ads and no corporation trying to sell my data
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2024
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I do prefer the size of Reddit, but I am continuing the API changes protest. Sup, that's it. If they reverse it, I might return, although the UI has changed again. Wouldn't mean I'd leave Lemmy, just use both.
I haven't actually used it with 3rd party apps, I used to do the same as I am doing right now, desktop website on my phone, but I do support the protests and I am not giving up after 2 days.
My comrades on Lemmy, though sometimes insular, are some of the friendliest, most supportive people I've ever known online.
I hate reddit but I was forced to go there since I apparently have nice interested, but they started going private and now I just use reddit for porn curation
I use both but I'll ditch reddit as soon as I can't patch apps like Infinity with my own api key. Reddits more active but it's also horrible to use if you don't jump through hoop.
Reddit for sure. But I absolutely refuse to use their app so I use it in the web browser but not a lot because reddit sucks on mobile. So I mostly use Lemmy on my phone.
On desktop I use both.
I haven’t touched reddit to browse it since I made my lemmy account. I still wind up there from an occasional search with no other relevant results.
The way lemmy functions is vastly superior to reddit IMO and I have no plans to return.
This right here, other than a thread or two, I have not been back since I ditched it last June.
Pretty much the same here. This scratches the very same itch that reddit did, but has several bonuses on top.
We have far better discussions on Lemmy, but there are some really niche communities I follow on Reddit still because there aren't enough interested folks here on Lemmy.
Lemmy for sure, I love this place so much!
I prefer Lemmy for:
- actually engaging with content (commenting/posting/voting) instead of simply consuming. By the time the API restrictions came around and the ads/bots started to dominate, it felt pointless to engage on Reddit any more.
- the positive parts of the federated and FOSS nature. Choose an instance, build your own, use or build any client you want to, federate or defederate whoever you want.
I prefer Reddit for:
- getting info/recommendations on things. The knowledge base is magnitudes larger than anything Lemmy can offer atm. Also, due to the centralized nature, it's so much easier to search for something on Reddit.
Lemmy's got some problems and I can't stand the interinstance drama, also, due to the decentralized nature, some instances can't keep up or the admins don't care any more, so whole communities can essentially be held hostage or simply die until a toolset to move a community from one instance to another (and propagate the change properly to the Fediverse) becomes available.
Lemmy in every technical way but to get information about non-political stuff, hobbies, diy etc. Reddit's numbers just means it's king, for now. The continued enshittification of the place will ensure it falls in time.
After almost a year of being Reddit free, I have been peeking back in there lately. It just doesn’t hit the same but I do lurk in some subs just because of the volume of content.
I do enjoy Lemmy though. I don’t feel as intimidated to make comments and like to feel we’re building something from the grass roots here.
Same for me. There are some interests I have (mostly niche games) that just don't have the population to have any sort of traction here. I don't comment or vote there anymore, and I'm only still logged in on my main PCs because I didn't bother logging out. Deleted all my old comments and posts.
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lemmy doesn't have spez, so lemmy is better.
Lemmy, overall. There are things I miss from Reddit but whenever I browse it now it's just so full of advertising.
Prefer Reddit’s volume of posts. Prefer lemmy in general. Disappointed that lemmy resembles reddit way too much.
Expand on this if you don’t mind. In what way does Lemmy disappoint you in how it resembles Reddit?
- “/s”
- “SLAMS!”
- “Neckbeard” or “fedora” etc. Grow the fuck up.
- Groupthink.
- Low-effort shitposts.
- Obvious propaganda.
- Arbitrary removal of comments.
- Copious white knight bullshit.
- Downvotes for facts that go against the zeitgeist.
Just off the top of my head.
Can I ask why you dislike /s?
Because it’s unnecessary and ruins sarcasm. If people are offended because they mistake a comment’s intent, that’s not my concern. I cannot relate to those who need intent spoon-fed to them. It invites lazy, light thinking.
It's really a nice feeling when strangers on the internet can read your comment and get what you'd written in the right context - even if that context is an obscure in-joke. But there are a lot of people on the internet and a lot of real assholes that might non-sarcastically say whatever crazy thing you're joking at...
Especially when it comes to neuro-divergent folks, I think the /s is quite helpful. People want to be in on your joke. It's fun to connect with humor on the internet... and omitting a /s makes it extremely unlikely that some folks, especially those on the autism spectrum, will be able to share that moment with you... instead, it's more likely to be read as an attack or at least yet another disappointing failure of humanity and compassion playing out over the web.
So if people don't seem to get your joke when you omit the /s, please do realize that you've made your speech less accessible and some people are getting offended by your speech and it isn't their fault - it's yours. That said, if you enjoy having more arcane jokes and occasionally being downvoted into oblivion, then nobody is going to force you to /s.
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- performative pearl-clutching level seems higher on Lemmy
Fair enough. I’m not into most of that behavior either except for maybe the occasional low-effort shit post.
Consider that I’m free to use either of these, and that we are having this conversation here, on Lemmy.
Nevertheless, the thread has been interesting.
Lemmy. Federation and the lack of a profit motive makes it much better.
I would also rather be surrounded by leftist vs liberal drama, rather than liberal vs fascist drama.
The latter is actually a good point. I had almost forgotten how constant and combative reddit was at times with the far-right peeps and incels and whatnot. At the time it had become so normal, one didn’t even think about it. Maybe offer alternative ideas (= argue) a while or just ignore, but now that you mention it, I don’t think there has been many situations like that here, for me at least. Not to say that the enlightened centrists aren’t very much the same in practice, and those I face here every now and then. They just aren’t nearly as bad in substance.
General usage, Lemmy
Technical usage, Reddit.
Same. I have trade and niche hobby interests that don't have critical mass here.
Conversations are better here tho
They IP banned me. So they can suck my 8 inches.
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Definitely Reddit.
Once I started using Lemmy I never touched Reddit again. So I guess Lemmy.
Ive been enjoying Lemmy again after uninstalling reddit after growing tired of seeing nothing but bad news in my feed (probably something I could fix but at the same time I was supposed to have left the site anyways), reddit still has the edge in content but Lemmy is still a good time killer for me.
Lemmy by fucking MILES.
- no ads
- no enshittificafion
- federated ecosystem
- OSS
- self-hostable
- no aggregate karma (so karma farming/selling is completely meaningless)
- userbase genuinely feels a lot less dumb
- loads of other things that I’m forgetting/too lazy to fully enumerate right now