• mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    1 hour ago

    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

  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
    18·
    1 hour ago
    7 things, tap to expand

    • Moderation: choosing when to ban people or not, and acting on it promptly.

    • Blocking people, since you can block communities (needed to use a 3rd party app to actually do this on reddit).

    • 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.)

    • less addictive design

    • comment formatting is made easy and seems to have more options.

    • honestly has more soul and more polite interactions. Reddit is good in places but not consistently/overall.

    • Doesn’t demand you install its app, browser is fine.

    • Klear@quokk.auEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      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.

      • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 hour ago

        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

    • Stormy@thelemmy.club
      8·
      15 hours ago

      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.

      • Deebster@infosec.pub
        10·
        14 hours ago

        I think any federated service is more vulnerable, because there’s no central oversight of e.g. 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.

        • Stormy@thelemmy.club
          1·
          4 hours ago

          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.

          • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            1·
            1 hour ago

            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

    • inari@piefed.zipEnglish
      4·
      13 hours ago

      That’ll only hold true while the platform is not popular, unfortunately

      • Twinklebreeze @lemmy.world
        6·
        13 hours ago

        I don’t think the platform will ever be popular. Picking an instance is a big enough barrier to entry to stop most people.

  • disregardable@lemmy.zip
    281·
    15 hours ago

    higher barrier of entry = a higher % of the posts are made by intelligent people.

    obviously it’s still massively outweighed by the stupid shit, I’m just saying I see it more than I saw it on reddit.

  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
    151·
    13 hours ago

    In my experience, Lemmy users tend to be more mature and less argumentative. You’ll find plenty of exceptions, though.

  • FrowingFostek@lemmy.world
    261·
    15 hours ago

    It feels less toxic here, or maybe I give less of a shit. I also enjoy the fact that I don’t get ads.

  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
    191·
    15 hours ago

    There’s like twelve different client apps for Lemmy, right?

    I left Reddit when they broke my favorite client app. Seemed destined to go down hill from there.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      4·
      2 hours ago

      I’m not a communist, but I upvoted this comment. Some may be insufferable, but the left slant here is refreshing.

      Not even talking just about political discussions, there’s just an overall level of empathy, logic and rationality here that’s much higher than on reddit

    • sveltecider@lemmy.ca
      3·
      15 hours ago

      There’s tons of liberalism on here too but I guess you can expect that with it becoming more popular.