lemmy doesn’t let the idf to moderate their communities and you can say things that run contrary to mainstream narratives.
No ads, and generally more left-leaning.
There’s (slightly) fewer cunts on here.
lemmy is much smaller so far and I like the communities. I also don’t feel like i’m being psyop’d by a bunch of bots in the larger communities like on reddit.
I feel more free to post my controversial opinions: downvotes don’t really count nor have an effect on my account
i like piefed because it’s not owned by a publicly traded company with massive ai deals, there’s fewer terfs, and shonky > snoo
Lack of ads and ideological sympathies for FOSS is a huge part of why I came here but I stayed because the smaller size of lemmy allows for a feeling of community that reddit cannot achieve. I see and interact with users I recognize and know a decent deal of information about.
Reddit’s culture is extremely toxic. Like, I actually left Reddit before Lemmy existed for that reason.
It can be toxic here too. I had my misadventure with a bunch of “experts” absolutely sure that the future is communism and “stupid you brainwashed fool” if you don’t get it.
Communism is the logical progression of society. It isn’t a certainty, but the alternative in the long-run is disaster and barbarism.
Oh I remember that, lol. It was a bunch of people giving long, well thought out explanations of their position to you, and you responding by ignoring them and insulting them.
Most of all: it’s run non-for-profit. There are no ads, donations are optional (I have the means to chip in a bit each year) and its not VC funded and therefore has no intrinsic pressure to enshittify like reddit repeatedly did. Lemmy does not exploit me.
I’ve been able to make (very minor) improvements to the codebase.
I could download and host an instance if I thought there was one my hobbies needed.
I can move around pretty easily without missing much if admins are moderating in a way I disagree with, or kowtow to corporate interests or garbage national laws. And some of the reddit admins (not merely subreddit mods) were abusive.
Well the apps and interface is better for sure.
I still doom scroll reddit I’m somewhat ashamed to say, but I only post on Lemmy. I do rather enjoy the smaller base here to interact with.
We enjoy you too buddy.
Gosh that warmed my heart way more than it should! Maybe that’s why I love Lemmy!
I try to sprinkle a bit of love where I can, here and there. Makes the place feel more like home. 💓
It’s small enough that you can know people on your instance. And posts get engagement for way longer.
Also separate up and down vote numbers is nice.
It’s calmer. Less clearly corporate interest promoted content. Less rage baiters. Less bots.
Conversation can happen in the comments on lemmy.
I don’t yet– found my way here after getting banned.
Welcome :)
I don’t feel like I am being scalped for every ounce of data.
Right? What’s with all the obvious data gathering posts with huge upvotes like: “What was your favorite commercial as a kid?”, or “What’s that one thing you keep secret?” Really? It might as well be a day old account with 30 karma posting: “Please post a list of your favorite passwords alphabetically if you’re cool”.
