in what way do you prefer using Lemmy over Reddit?

Not permabanned for unknown reason (i never posted or commented ever on reddit and got banned)

I get to see answer this question every month.

Well, I have not been banned from Lemmy for my anti-Nazi opinions.

No karma means being able to post in any sub without having to have 100+ karma.

true, that's a big fucking plus

Ethics. Reddit has become subject to corporate greed so they can simply go bankrupt for all I care.

Physically. Good apps and lack of ads.

Spiritually. A sense of freedom.

It's nice not having a shitty corporation actively and visibly screwing me.

I haven't been permabanned over reporting a post and then fingerprinted such that my new accounts get insta-banned even through a VPN.

There is just a lot less noice on Lemmy. Reddit feels like 1 legit post for every 100 shit post.

I've never really since I didn't have any reason to, although I regularly use it as a knowledge base since Lemmy cannot compete on that regard.

I like the idea of the fediverse so I thought I'd come here.

Also surveilance capitalism sucks ass.

I don't I'm just banned there. I would be fine with lemmy if there were more people here with specific tiny sub-comunities like reddit. hell, there arent even big fandom pages here...

Reddit bans are easy to evade if you really need to be on there
- I tried making a new account when I was on a different ISP than at my home, so I need to be on a new device in a new place...

No ads, and generally more left-leaning.

Yes

Right answer.

Reddit banned my 10 year old account because they flagged it as a ban evasion account, stupid cunts.

I'm new to lemmy as a whole, So time will tell.

Lack of ads and ideological sympathies for FOSS is a huge part of why I came here but I stayed because the smaller size of lemmy allows for a feeling of community that reddit cannot achieve. I see and interact with users I recognize and know a decent deal of information about.

Well the apps and interface is better for sure.

I still doom scroll reddit I’m somewhat ashamed to say, but I only post on Lemmy. I do rather enjoy the smaller base here to interact with.

We enjoy you too buddy.
- Gosh that warmed my heart way more than it should! Maybe that’s why I love Lemmy!

On Lemmy I only follow news and informative stuff, and on here there's an emphasis on the things I'm already interested in (FOSS, Privacy, etc.)

It's calmer. Less clearly corporate interest promoted content. Less rage baiters. Less bots.

All ways.

I occasionally have a real conversation on Lemmy.

lemmy doesn't let the idf to moderate their communities and you can say things that run contrary to mainstream narratives.

Fuck the mainstream! Am I doing this right?
- Everyone hates the mainstream; the real question is: have you taught yourself how to change things?

Is the most concise answer "Every"? Personally, it is the profound absence of actively sponsored gathering for the village idiots.

Conversation can happen in the comments on lemmy.

No they cant! So anyways, did you do anything cool this weekend?
- Just house work buddy. Moving sucks.

I don’t feel like I am being scalped for every ounce of data.

Right? What's with all the obvious data gathering posts with huge upvotes like: "What was your favorite commercial as a kid?", or "What's that one thing you keep secret?" Really? It might as well be a day old account with 30 karma posting: "Please post a list of your favorite passwords alphabetically if you're cool".

Most of all: it's run non-for-profit. There are no ads, donations are optional (I have the means to chip in a bit each year) and its not VC funded and therefore has no intrinsic pressure to enshittify like reddit repeatedly did. Lemmy does not exploit me.

I've been able to make (very minor) improvements to the codebase.

I could download and host an instance if I thought there was one my hobbies needed.

I can move around pretty easily without missing much if admins are moderating in a way I disagree with, or kowtow to corporate interests or garbage national laws. And some of the reddit admins (not merely subreddit mods) were abusive.

I love chatting with people that are generally more reasonable and kind. Random viciousness seems absent here in my experience.

I feel more free to post my controversial opinions: downvotes don't really count nor have an effect on my account

Reddit's culture is extremely toxic. Like, I actually left Reddit before Lemmy existed for that reason.

It can be toxic here too. I had my misadventure with a bunch of "experts" absolutely sure that the future is communism and "stupid you brainwashed fool" if you don't get it.
- Communism is the logical progression of society. It isn't a certainty, but the alternative in the long-run is disaster and barbarism.
- Oh I remember that, lol. It was a bunch of people giving long, well thought out explanations of their position to you, and you responding by ignoring them and insulting them.
- .ml and shit talking communism.
  As far as I understand that's about as stupid of a move as you can make.
  Your basically on the literal communism is awesome instance.

lemmy is much smaller so far and I like the communities. I also don't feel like i'm being psyop'd by a bunch of bots in the larger communities like on reddit.

There’s (slightly) fewer cunts on here.

We could definitely use more Ozzie's. Good folk them Ozzie's. You know other then the religious nut job ones taking away our porn.

No corporate pissbabies extracting value for shareholders for starts

It's all open, we can participate in its development.

Digg

It's small enough that you can know people on your instance. And posts get engagement for way longer.

Also separate up and down vote numbers is nice.

My instance doesn't sell what I write to train AI.

Of course, the AI sumbitches probably scrape Lemmy for content too like they scrape everything for content. But at least Lemmy doesn't give them my content on a platter, nicely packaged up and ready to exploit and monetize. They have to do the scraping.

Nobody needs your instance to sell anything. The AI companies can access the data for free, just like the rest of us do through the web.
- Some instances like solarpunk sit behind anubis which makes each request from scrapers cost exponentially more than usual. Its not much but at least people on lemmy have the mind to try and strike back, on reddit they take it laying down.
Eh, if they run their own ActivityPub server they can probably extract everything in a neat format.
- Yeah but they have to set it up. It's not sold to them ready to exploit - and crucially, Spez doesn't get to make any money off my back.

I don't yet-- found my way here after getting banned.

Welcome :)

No ads and no corporate censorship.

i like piefed because it's not owned by a publicly traded company with massive ai deals, there's fewer terfs, and shonky > snoo

Community sizes are smaller but the larger ones are large enough to sustain conversations

I don't yet, but it's getting closer.

One reason is on me. I should choose a different instance because mine is the other side of the world from me! Different vibe. I probably haven't moved because I enjoy experiencing local views which oppose and align with my own. Conversely, In the community context, I follow "fuck_ai" and some of the pro-AI communities because it's important to me to see both sides of this revolution develop.

The second is that quite a few of the Reddit communities have limited Lemmy presence with significant momentum. That will hopefully change with time and other platforms willing.

On the flip side, I've found that there are many communities which have momentum which I joined on Lemmy for fun that I haven't investigated as to whether they exist in Reddit. My interests are eclectic and transient sometimes. Perhaps my sense of wonder will wilt one day (that alliteration sounded better in my head; damn!).

The anti AI communities sure are very vocal
- Pretty sure the anti steam power or electricity people were too.
  I'm a strange bugger, I like to hear both sides of an argument and especially the corner cases. That never seems to happen anymore.
  "I don't agree with you."
  \ "Your cancelled."
  Yeah. Most of it is ranting but very occasionally someone says something interesting or someone from the pro- side makes something known that isn't very pro- (copyright breaches etc).

Website format is much nicer. I like that you can post links knowing you wont get deranked or blackholed by a random mod. Modlog is also a nice feature.

The modlog is excellent. In fact, I've seen it used not just to keep mods accountable (or at least prove to the community that they're abusive), but also to refute troublemakers who claim they were banned from an instance for no reason or for ideological reasons, when the modlog shows them making clearly bigoted and inflammatory posts.

I enjoy not having corporate censorship deciding what I can and can't see or say; not that I comment or post that much.

Reddit is intolerant against atheists. You can't speak out againist the pain, suffering, hate, murder, slavery, and genocide from world religions without people in those religions reporting you for hate speech.

Bluesky is just as intolerant against atheists.

Religions and the religious make up stealth blasphemy laws, when they can't directly implement them. They don't want people pointing out how their religious hate hurts everyone, it makes them look bad.

Somehow, Lemmy is the best choice for speaking out against these hateful religions, and the hateful people that support them.

Not so sure that would be very different here
It seems however that Lemmy is pretty anti religion
- In the short time iv actively actually used Lemmy.
  Iv learned it's incredibly anti Ai, pro communism and hates religion with a burning passion.
  But it also almost always is .ml instance users being the most vocal users on every post i see.
  Iv just gotten to the point when I see .ml I assume it's some jaded asshole who hates everyone else. As they always do the thing I see religious people do and just dog pile anyone who disagrees with them.
  But one of the healthiest things iv done for my mental health on here is literally never read any replies. If I naturally come across a reply during a rereading of a post I'll respond but other wise.
  I literally do not read any reply. I also delete most of my comments after a little bit.
- the difference is that there isn't just one instance of Lemmy that bans you from the entirety of Lemmy. Antisemites are free to make their own instances as are israelites or communists.

Lemmy over what?