3rd party apps.
Reddit apps addicted me to ad free content delivered in the way Eternity for lemmy does, and that’s no longer available for reddit.
The UI is just way, way, WAY less obnoxious.
I do wish it had the niche communities though. Stuff for individual games, etc.
– Frost
3rd party apps for browsing
the real reason we’re all here
There’s at least less astroturfing and AI posing as real people, if nothing else.
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.
I think any federated service is more vulnerable, because there’s no central oversight, e.g. of 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.
there isnt. but no one cares about this place to infect it
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.
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
That’ll only hold true while the platform is not popular, unfortunately
I don’t think the platform will ever be popular. Picking an instance is a big enough barrier to entry to stop most people.
there is much astroturfing of russian policy on lemmy
is it astroturing it just a lot of smug young ideologues sitting in their basement blaming capitalism for their lack of happiness?
astroturing implies they get paid.
You don’t find it a bit ironic to be calling out people criticizing capitalism for making people miserable as “smug” while being incredibly smug?
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.
Absolutely the truth for most Fediverse platforms. It takes cognitive effort to join and get started.
It feels less toxic here, or maybe I give less of a shit. I also enjoy the fact that I don’t get ads.
Oh yes. No ads is nice!
7 things, tap to expand
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Moderation: choosing when to ban people or not, and acting on it promptly.
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Blocking people, since you can block communities (needed to use a 3rd party app to actually do this on reddit).
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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.)
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less addictive design
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comment formatting is made easy and seems to have more options.
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honestly has more soul and more polite interactions. Reddit is good in places but not consistently/overall.
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Doesn’t demand you install its app, browser is fine.
Doesn’t demand you install its app, browser is fine.
I wish I knew how to do the heart emoji …
Lemmy doesn’t have emoji reactions, you need to be on a piefed instance to do that
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.
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
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Gender bending Linux stuff.
Definitely gets the not being a raging transphobic cesspool over reddit.
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.
In my experience, Lemmy users tend to be more mature and less argumentative. You’ll find plenty of exceptions, though.
Yeah well I think u r wrong. Fite me.
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you sound like someone who blocked lemmy.ml
Perhaps my instance did (I don’t remember), but I haven’t personally.
Communism
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
You’re not wrong.
There’s tons of liberalism on here too but I guess you can expect that with it becoming more popular.
Superiority complex.
Pretty good at not being Reddit which is my number one reason for using it.
This place is what reddit was like 20 years ago
Slightly more political now, I feel like there used to be a lot more learning and sharing of culture. We did have some other oddballs though - flossdaily, Unidan, voilentacrez - not sure we have as much of that on the fediverse…at least not those that reach the front pages.
there are some lemmy powerusers i see frequently posting and pushing their weird little agendas.
just not very many of them.
I remember reddit being pretty political 20 years ago, too. It’s a lot more left-leaning here, though.
the politics was less extremist though. it was most libertarians being mad about stuff not being free enough, but generally being agreeable about most other stuff. libertarians weren’t calling to kill people over political differences, just telling them they were naive for trusting the government.
the world hadn’t yet been taken over by identity politics and the idea everyone is systematically oppressed and that perceived oppression justifies oppression against others.
Yeah, shortly before the Digg exodus was reddit’s best period imo
I think it was still a fun site through at least the first Place so I’d say peak was post-Digg
I feel like folks are a lot more willing to be polite and have a discussion versus an argument. Granted, I suspect the federation process and finding a host helps with that.
