in what way do you prefer using Lemmy over Reddit?
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Original question by @[email protected]
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Unpopular opinion time: Virtually nothing. Lemmy is, from the end-user perspective, just another Reddit clone filled with the same idiots as Reddit, posting the exact same bullshit as is posted on Reddit.
The only reason I can tolerate this format of interaction has been to have a policy of blocking at least 1 imbecile per day. It actually helps, try it. Block me if you think I'm a loudmouth idiot.
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No advertising. No algorithms driving content at me.
Reddit advertising was particularly toxic. Ads were unskippable and often predatory. Beer and gambling ads in addiction subs, Jesus ads in atheism and minority religion subs, etc.
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Original question by @[email protected]
Not giving money or content to a shitty company is enough for me. Once I was here, I found out about the public modlog, the nature of the fediverse, and the love for Linux you people have. Also it feels kinda like, less karmawhoring content, because we don't have karma here. I don't know, this feels like it's shaped by communities for real.
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For a couple of years there were accounts where all the comments they made had a theme, usually the username was related. That's how ShittyWatercolor started; someone would describe something in a comment and that would make shitty watercolor artwork of it.
There were tons of them. I remember another that would replace words in the comment with a link to a Magic the Gathering card where the title of the card would fill in the rest of the sentence.
There was another that would
witre cmeomtns lkie tihsso your brain could read them even though nothing was spelled properly.
There were a few threads where they'd Assemble like the Avengers and it would be a bunch of folks all playing off one another. It was glorious, and then it all just kind of faded away...
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Ah, gotcha. I don't remember seeing a decline, but maybe I wasn't looking for it.
EDIT: It looks like /u/ShittyWatercolour is still posting as of two months ago:
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Ah, gotcha. I don't remember seeing a decline, but maybe I wasn't looking for it.
EDIT: It looks like /u/ShittyWatercolour is still posting as of two months ago:
Yeah they still exist. But there's a lot less
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Original question by @[email protected]
liked seeing tech stuff like linux and selfhosting, dont really see it anymore, starting to use it less and less
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Original question by @[email protected]
Lemmy hasn't been enshittified.
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Original question by @[email protected]
Nobody is making profit from my content or selling my data to advertisers.
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For a couple of years there were accounts where all the comments they made had a theme, usually the username was related. That's how ShittyWatercolor started; someone would describe something in a comment and that would make shitty watercolor artwork of it.
There were tons of them. I remember another that would replace words in the comment with a link to a Magic the Gathering card where the title of the card would fill in the rest of the sentence.
There was another that would
witre cmeomtns lkie tihsso your brain could read them even though nothing was spelled properly.
There were a few threads where they'd Assemble like the Avengers and it would be a bunch of folks all playing off one another. It was glorious, and then it all just kind of faded away...
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Does anyone remember 9M9H9E9? I stumbled on that account around the time of the "magical space pussy" part of the story.
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It's not overflowing with Nazis and pedos. It has a tankie problem, but it's still not as much of a problem as the Nazis and pedos on Reddit.
I did see some pedo apologists recently, but it used to be a very big issue on reddit. I hope that's not a sign they're going to stick here.
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I'm currently browsing Lemmy with a third party app.
Reddit wiped out that capacity, and I in turn wiped out my participation on reddit.
i use a minimalist app written in rust that i prefer to the reddit or default lemmy experience
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Original question by @[email protected]
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Lemmy didn't try to force me to dox myself for "age verification".
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Original question by @[email protected]
I don't prefer lemmy. I'm locked out of the only communities i actually enjoyed, because the mirrors here are dead beyond hope.
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Original question by @[email protected]
If they hadn't killed RiF client, I'd still be there.
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Original question by @[email protected]
Most of the posts on Lemmy are still made by humans instead of automatically reposting the top posts from 5 years ago forever.
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If they hadn't killed RiF client, I'd still be there.
Not sure if I'd still be there, and thank God for the Connect app for Lemmy that it getting close to the point of being actually useful because without that I don't know where I'd be
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Original question by @[email protected]
Its not enshittified in various ways. Its just a news aggregate and discussion forum that functions.
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Most of the posts on Lemmy are still made by humans instead of automatically reposting the top posts from 5 years ago forever.
The bots ran me off. I want to read human comments and converse with humans.
Caught a permaban for my, uh, spicy opinions on Russians. I rarely go back to look at something and every post has 10,000 bullshit replies.
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Original question by @[email protected]
An actually solid mobile client
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I hate the adds...and the bots
