The mods are significantly less arbitrary in enforcing rules, with the exception of the instances that we all know. There are still some goofy exceptions, but by and large the mods are less power trippy.
It is less addictive.
I feel like folks are a lot more willing to be polite and have a discussion versus an argument. Granted, I suspect the federation process and finding a host helps with that.
Literally everything except having the plethora of niche subs.
3rd party apps for browsing
the real reason we’re all here
The only things it DOESN’T do better is have a large number of users and has the same problems with poor moderation (because they are both just randos with no real checks or balances to their modicum of power so it’s very easy to abuse).
Honestly everything other than variety and scale of communities. It’s not as big of a compliment as it sounds like though - Reddit is almost unspeakably shitty. Pay a visit to the front page or whatever they call it now and be greeted by nothing but ragebait, hornybait, gender war content, political discussion with zero critical or individual thinking, and 500 popular communities that are completely undifferentiated because they form a singular bland monoculture circle jerk that just repackages the day’s hot topic in whatever shoehorned way it can into every subreddit (Lemmy is starting to do this too though yay…). The only difference between it and tiktok is the UI tbh
this comment is poetry.
lemmy does totally lack the vibrant niche communities. i loved the circlejerk communites especially ragging on the stupid stuff in hobby subs, but that can’t be here because the mainstream hobby communities have zero users or activity.
The !superbowl@lemmy.world. No doute.
Crossposting from another fediware. Can’t do that outside the fediverse, of course.Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Superiority complex.
Federating with mbin and Piefed
7 things, tap to expand
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Moderation: choosing when to ban people or not, and acting on it promptly.
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Blocking people, since you can block communities (needed to use a 3rd party app to actually do this on reddit).
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Filtering out/organising porn, seperating it from SFW content (Reddit tricks you into seeing porn all the time but lemmy holds it on seperate instances.)
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less addictive design
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comment formatting is made easy and seems to have more options.
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honestly has more soul and more polite interactions. Reddit is good in places but not consistently/overall.
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Doesn’t demand you install its app, browser is fine.
You need to put two spaces at the end of a line to get a proper line break
It’s an odd quirk of markdown.Or you can press enter twice like I did here if you don’t mind the extra space.
I actually have everything formatted the way I intended. Following your comment I did try and add more gaps to make the whole thing more readable/pleasant for people, but nothing changed in its appearance. Sorry if it’s hard to read
Doesn’t demand you install its app, browser is fine.
I wish I knew how to do the heart emoji …
Lemmy doesn’t have emoji reactions, you need to be on a piefed instance to do that
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There’s at least less astroturfing and AI posing as real people, if nothing else.
there is much astroturfing of russian policy on lemmy
is it astroturing it just a lot of smug young ideologues sitting in their basement blaming capitalism for their lack of happiness?
astroturing implies they get paid.
You don’t find it a bit ironic to be calling out people criticizing capitalism for making people miserable as “smug” while being incredibly smug?
I wonder if there are safe guards to stop a bot army from impacting the discourse, or if it’s just because it’s a less known platform.
I think any federated service is more vulnerable, because there’s no central oversight, e.g. of IPs used to create accounts.
Even without any code, you could easily register accounts at the 20 largest instances and upvote yourself. I’m sure some people will have done just that.
there isnt. but no one cares about this place to infect it
Nah i saw some infections earlier today on few politcal posts. It was just blatantly calling ukrainians nazis and 2022 style Russian disinfo, and rt.com news. I got in trouble for reporting it by the admins, and was belittled by the crowd.
I mean the purpose of disinformation is to create disinformed people, so unless they have a very conspicuous activity history, idk why people assume any account posting that stuff is a bot
That’ll only hold true while the platform is not popular, unfortunately
I don’t think the platform will ever be popular. Picking an instance is a big enough barrier to entry to stop most people.
Pretty good at not being Reddit which is my number one reason for using it.
Gender bending Linux stuff.
Definitely gets the not being a raging transphobic cesspool over reddit.
