Wow, didn't expect to make it here, thanks 😄
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2024
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Great write up. Thank you!
You hit the nail on the head with this one
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For me, I never had a Reddit account so I don't have a basis of comparison.
I don't even really care about the features, look, etc. I care that it's decentralized and not owned by a corporation. That's the beginning and end of it for me.
Lemmy is so much better than Reddit it is no contest. Lemmy just needs a bit more growth.
I honestly appreciate the current scale of Lemmy. It feels nostalgic of oldskool forums or even oldskool reddit. But I can't deny the a larger scale brings certain advantages that are almost essential for a modern online community. It also brings risks. I'm very curious to see where the future will lead lemmy and if it will be able to withstand the traps others haven fallen into.
I dunno, I keep seeing almost only propaganda whenever my country in mentioned and it gets defended a lot because "muh left", and it's really off putting.
If I wanted misinformation and disinformation, reddit is already filled with bots that do that whenever the goverment is criticised and mods that do nothing against those bots.
Fully agreed. Lemmy‘s developers being tankies influences the whole ecosystem negatively. The strong presence of FOSS activists here adds another group of ideologues. Even mods outside lemmy.ml will moderate along similar hard ideological lines. Political content is often an echo chamber on lemmy. Downvotes for disagreements are the norm. The mods are more arbitrary than even those on Reddit. I’ve seen many times how they delete posts and replies, just because they offer disagreeing information. There are lots of unwritten arbitrary rules. Users are banned and the communities they founded are deleted with all their posts. I’ve seen lots of useful content removed through this mechanism. Overall moderation is far more arbitrary here than on Reddit.
Most other Reddit alternatives were filled with racists and cp. Lemmy is a haven for tankies.
Feel free to report such behavior on [email protected]
I don’t know if this is worth my time. It’s not just lemmy.ml and hexbear. lemmy.world, solarpunk, and feddit.org are also affected for example.
sh.itjust.works seems to be the exception. Answers that are tolerated in [email protected] get deleted or users banned on world, worldnews, news, and similar. I’m strictly talking about posts that don’t violate any written rules.
I suspect this is a major reason why lemmy isn’t more popular and growth has stalled. The core users are free software true believers and Marxist fundamentalists and want to stay among themselves.
Reddit has a ton of propaganda, too. You won't escape it online. It's worse on Reddit though because it's bigger, so a more obvious target to astroturf.
It’s fresh, for lack of a better word. Reddit is the same 5 questions on repeat in most subs. There are back corner niche groups that don’t exist here yet, but the main pages are mostly repetitive garbage.
And ten forward!
However, those are stil a bit less mature than Lemmy, so for instance if you want to use mobile apps a lot, Lemmy is a better choice.
Speaking for fedia.io, the mobile browser interface is perfectly satisfactory, no special app needed.
I even use the Lemmy default UI on phone and don't have any issues with that, but I've seen people to whom having a dedicated app was very important.
It's definitely fine but I do like voyager. It has some nice features that are mobile oriented.