First two results when you search for lemmy on reddit.

My beef with Lemmy:

• It’s weighted towards politics
• Not a lot of niche sub critical mass yet (though this is not its fault at all)
• But holy moly, it’s a political purity test! Like, I think of myself as pretty socialist, way far off center, but I feel totally alone veering off certain topics or even acknowledging certain things! I’m (mostly) not getting banned, and I am not leaving, but still.

Why are you on Reddit, it is vile and absolutely terrible, better stay away.

I've noticed a rise of Bot Moderators on reddit and their AI is not very good. They pick up on certain words and not context. One banned me for 3 days for harassment but I was defending myself against someone that was being antagonistic against me. My appeal was rejected :(

Lemmy tastes like reddit that I have grown in my backyard garden.

Both of these posts are complaining about their accounts being banned, which happened because they (at least one of them) posted low effort questions and therefore got lots of downvotes and got automatically banned by a system meant to ban bots and trolls. The irony is that reddit has major problems with their automatic moderation which you yourself as an user is completely powerless to controll, e.g. recently when a massive amount of nsfw subreddits were banned for being unmoderated which they later admitted was erroneous.

It's so weird to read this, because other than a dork messaging me saying they were going to report me to the FBI I've had nothing but a lovely time on Lemmy.

I mean any default experience which includes the ml trio is legitimately vile. The sooner Lemmy gets serious about the tankie problem, the better.

Hey this is my first day on Lemmy and my first comment, too! Fun times.

Ima be real everyone is kissing lemmys ass but.. I mean, it feels like reddit? Which is good?

Feels no different from reddit so far lol it's not better or worse, really

I don't get the hate this place gets. It's been really interesting watching Lemmy's growing pains over the last two-ish years and all the changes it has undergone. The whole concept of the Fediverse is fascinating to me and has been a genuine delight to explore.

Wait till they hear about reddit

Oh no... Anyway.

Usually when there are more comments than upvotes it means that OP is getting thoroughly roasted

yes. extremely dangerous website

It’s probably Spez with a second hand account

Where's my vile homies at?! Let's get freaky with some Linux and Star Trek memes.

This is a marketing issue.

Conspiracy theory those are actually written by Reddit themselves so people don’t go to the rival

Anybody surprized by this?

downvote bots needed

Honestly I had some really bad experiences here on Lemmy. I So bad, that in fact I contemplated going back to Reddit because it didn't feel much different. I surely went from recommending my friends to delete Reddit to towards more of a "just quit Reddit altogether but there's no good alternative"

Must be a coincidence /s

Definitely not related to this https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37910698

Spez would never do this on purpose, he's a good guy

Lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad actually are terrible

posted by u/spez

Not gonna lie; I read the first link in the "stay away from the summoner" lady's voice from FFX.

This is some cope mechanism or some Stockholm syndrome right there.

I'd read those, but they're probably behind a paywall like they do with superior websites.

blessings up 🙏

Agree tbh. Drag invited drag's friends to use Lemmy and they were treated horribly by the community. Drag is addicted to the platform and wouldn't wish that addiction on anyone. Except Elon Musk.

Thing is, I value my VPN-based privacy more than any other aspect of antisocial media.. it's beyond sketchy and worrisome that they shadowban anyone not willing to share their real identity. No thanks, CCP.

Resounding endorsements!

do people still use google for search? when i watch my mom search for something she'll ask any AI over google. soon reddit results will vanish from google for their paywall. so this is a good sign! the evil americans will have a hard time with massextraction of personal data from around the world. enemies of murica can research building bombs without being tracked by the neonazination. anything bas for america haa turned into something good for the world. is there any way to speed this up maybe? spez should start his paywal asap!

I wonder why? I have been here for a couple of days and it's nice so far.

Idk I kind of like Lemmy so far 🤷

One of these is someone complaining about a ban from automod triggered by tons of downvotes on fresh account. That is, their takes were so shit that they were swept by tool meant for spambots

If the rest of the post is: BECAUSE THEY'RE TOO LIBERAL.

Good. We don't need anyone deterred by that. We do a fine enough job fighting amongst ourselves.

lol, Lemmy is the most benign social media platform i have participated in decades

Use Qwant instead:

Lemmy is far from perfect, but so is Reddit, and Reddit is falling further every day. Some users on Lemmy have a bad time because they come barrelling in without reading instance tags, pick an instance name they think is cool, and suddenly find themselves on the front lines of a massive drama war and slapped with tags they didn't even know existed... I know from experience.

So then they'll run off back to Reddit without reading and actually finding the right instance and start screaming how bad it is. Couple that with Reddit trying to hush everything Lemmy and doctoring their platform to make it look bad... yeah.

I'll admit I still use Reddit from time to time because there are communities that don't exist here yet that are actually good communities staying out of this battle. But you can bet your ass I use RedReader and uBO to do it. The moment Reddit started charging exorbitant API fees and peddling NFTs I cut my use back by 90%.

So pick your poison: Do a little research and find the right instance and communities or live as the product and run around with the blinders they give you. Its literally a red pill blue pill deal.

Five bad things about Lemmy. You won't believe the last one.

I’ve had the opposite experience in my short time here

When you search it. Everything is so tailored these days. I get a Wikipedia article and a join-lemmy.org website.

Lol noticed that a while ago and forgot to post it