I like that its smaller, it feels like the Internet used to back in the day. You get to know posters better which is nice
No intrusive ads or trackers. Less AI slop and more genuine human interaction. The ability to easily block communities, users, and instances is nice too.
And it’s safe to say Luigi here
All this plus no profile karma. Meaning instead of chasing numbers to inflate our accounts and increase our perceived worth (whether consciously or subconsciously), people just are.
Or as you put it: more genuine human interaction.
To me it’s more like the numbers mean something different. While they still mean mostly nothing, the numbers that display on your profile tell what kind of user you are and how much seniority you have here. Been here close to two years? Maybe you came from the API fiasco. Got 1000+ comments and 50+ post? Somewhat active user you probably seen once or twice before. 0 post and below 50 comments but seemingly active? Potential lurker. Still mostly meaningless because it could be alt and who really cares but NGL when I look at the stats of the really active users I’m like damn they really contributed to the Lemmy content mill.
I like the fact I’m not giving some megacorp ownership of my 0 thought comments
Don’t worry, they’re here scraping everything being said to train AI
Yeah, model the AI you’re going to sell to the military off my comments.
- Self hosting
- Can’t get banned
- Feeling of being a part of something larger but not overwhelming large yet still having some control
- Good range of mobile and web frontends
- No adverts
- No tracking
- Memes, sometimes older memes and not getting ridiculed for them
- Seeing other users from my instance on my travels
Some things I tolerate
- American politics
- Random porn
- Bot spam
Can’t get banned
Well, technically if you’re a chud, you can get widely defederated.
True enough. I hope that my instances behaviour would never warrant such drastic action by other instances.
Your instance is cool!
Yep the no ridicule is so important, it gets really nasty on reddit
No Spez, and not getting permabanned for criticizing Corporate interests, or Musk, specifically.
No ads, apparently no bots, no reddit-style comments like “This.”, no corporation involved
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EDIT: Man… Im downvoting myself. This sucks
SPARTA!
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Nooo
Less reposting of “funny” TikToks / Instagram reels / YouTube shorts.
I do NOT miss those
I feel like this will be inevitable with growth. Unless we get to foster a consciousness about its problems and get instances to actively prevent those
I like how open the ecosystem is. You can pick any instance, any web app, any mobile app, block instances you don’t want to see, etc. You have much more control over what you see and how you interact with the system.
Yes that’s a really good thing, you don’t get spammed with stuff you don’t want. You’ve got choice
I can sort my subscribed page by top 12 hours and only use Lemmy once or twice a day. Helps with controlling doom scrolling.
Other than that, there’s better human interaction here. I’ve started recognizing names and pfps which is pretty cool too. Some of y’all seem rad.
NO U SEEM RAD
Funny rat image.
It’s not reddit. And it’s not for profit. And the people here are great!
I genuinely feel different writing here. On Reddit I constantly analyzed the 18 different ways some random person would take my comment badly. Now I just write stuff and people don’t instantly assume I’m an evil moron.
The fediverse compatibility. I feel like I’m on the cutting edge of the internet atm.
- Third party apps.
- The subscribed feed doesn’t contain uninvited random junk. I guess irrelevant trash drives engagement among some people, but it’s just driving me mad instead.
- Lemmy is still wild and untamed, like Reddit used to be.
Not THAT wild and untamed, unfortunately. I’d love an eyeblech/NSFW community, but that’s not really welcome here.
The users are cooler than anywhere else. 😎
Does this mean I’m cool? 🥺
You’re on an internet chat board. By definition you’re uncool.
You’re just less uncool than other such places.
🤭
I’ve seen you around here before! 🤨
Ability to selfhost.
I never really did spend much time on reddit, so Lemmy was never a replacement for me.
Even now Lemmy feels much different than it was a few years ago. It is wild seeing posts with only a few comments and hundreds of up/downvotes.
