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
I like the idea of contributing to something built by users.
Smaller user base means discussions move a bit slower.
Better blocking and other tools for sorting content and users.
No ads.
Far, far fewer petty mods and admins. There will never be zero, but it is much better here overall.
In real life, I prefer to live in a big town.
Online, I prefer to live in a small town.
I don’t want to contribute content to support Reddit, Inc. They’ve demonstrated greedy corpo BS that I don’t want to support.
Lemmy doesn’t give a shit if I’m on VPN, which means I can still access it when working from home.
Lemmy as a platform doesn’t care. But Lemmy as a community certainly does: You should absolutely be on a VPN in this day and age.
People are slightly less stupid, which makes conversation not as frustrating. I also don’t get banned/suspended because a mod got uppity (and even if it happened, the solutions are easier!). I mean, it happened on .ml but I had to get at least one ban, lol.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
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.
The UX is just so much better in every aspect. UI is clean and (mostly) intuitive, but more importantly, supports alternative frontends and apps offering better and personalized UIs. There isn’t a half-dozen roadblocks and annoyances put in the way of accessing content, like VPN-bans and ads. There isn’t even a particularly high-bar to join and participate, so no worries about entering a phone number or building up karma.
I can just use the site. Now all I need is content thats actually relevant to me.
Lemmy didn’t try to force me to dox myself for “age verification”.
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
I’m allowed to comment without first being required to farm an unknown amount of karma.
I’m not enriching a pedophile neo-nazi
Every way.
