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
No advertising. No algorithms driving content at me.
It’s one of those things I don’t notice until I make a trip back to Reddit to pick up something I left (moving out takes time).
At least once per visit I end up clicking an ad by accident, because they’re everywhere.
I downvote every one . Even the ones with a puppy dog or cat.
That might be worse than not engaging at all 🤷♂️
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.
Yeah, not missing reddit. Missing some of the peeps, tho.
I hate the adds…and the bots
They serve no purpose for which I have a need.
It really makes you wonder about the type of people that see an ad and say to themselves " I’m going to look into that ".
I see an advertisement and the first thing that pops in my mind is “ok, I’ll stay away from that for sure, i definitelydont want that in my life”
I was checking my weather app, and they fed me an ad for something that I didn’t even know what it was, so I went to the website, clicked around a bunch, just so they thought I was interested. All Praise be to VPN! Sometimes reinforcing a mis-impression is the best thing one can do.
No fucking Spez messing with the API.
I like the idea of contributing to something built by users.
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People are nicer here. For the most part.
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There are a shit ton less corporate ops manufacturing consent.
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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.
Banned.
Lemmy hasn’t been enshittified.
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.
I don’t want to contribute content to support Reddit, Inc. They’ve demonstrated greedy corpo BS that I don’t want to support.
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.
Removed by mod
Perhaps the communities are not as fake because updoots cannot be farmed (either to sell the account or just so you can feel your existence validated, lol). And maybe monotheistrevolutionaries.lemmy.ml could exist? 😅
So who do I talk to so I can sell my reddit account. It’s got to be worth at least $150 but I’d take a gram of pure MDMA
Lemmy didn’t try to force me to dox myself for “age verification”.
In real life, I prefer to live in a big town.
Online, I prefer to live in a small town.
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.
better discussions, no ads, better mobile experience
Nobody is making profit from my content or selling my data to advertisers.
