I just signed up after lurking for a while. So far it’s very limited compared to Reddit and if not for the loss of Apollo I wouldn’t be here. But I’m using an app that looks and acts like Apollo (Voyager) so it feels like Reddit did for years.
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2024
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I mod the !cocktails@lemmy.world and in about 6 months of taking care of it, I've needed to take down exactly one comment. One. It's so, so much nicer here.
- Open source
- Federated
- Community driven and ran
- I hate supporting and being fucked in the ass by corporations
I think if the population was just slightly smarter and less submissive then more people would use and support open source software. I don't even mean lemmy, just OSS in general
App and less bots
Less astroturfing
Free from corporate interest.
Custom clients
I like them both equally.
It's way less addictive. Seriously, the last time I opened my Lemmy client was 5 days ago. Back when I was active on Reddit, I spent 3 of my waking hours on it every day, that's 21 hours a week.
The top comment of this post would be some reposted for the 8000th time "inside joke" on reddit. For me, it didn't matter what the post was about, every comment section was the same. It was especially frustrating when the post itself encouraged conversation and the top comment would be completely off topic.
No profit motive.
Lot less bloat
Reddit wouldn't always let me say what I wanted. They would block/shadowban/mute me. Which I realized is inherently wrong in a society that intends to be a democracy.
So I hope Lenny is better in that regard. If I say something I don't want it taken away. I want it to have a chance to be challenged for what it is.
Once I realized this, I considered how many other probably healthy opinions that never got seen because mods, rules, restrictions and probably also financial and political biases ruined their chances of being challenged and seen in the first place. If only specific opinions are allowed, the whole site is inherently biased. I don't like that. I bet that would explain the dumb stuff I've seen there. Because if nobody can challenge an opinion it will never grow.
it load faster
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.