What are some of the "small things" you appreciate about Lemmy over Reddit?
What are some of the "small things" you appreciate about Lemmy over Reddit? - lemm.ee
I like being able to edit titles!
No ads and the fact, that it is open source and community driven.
Seeing downvotes as soon as there's at least one is so cool to me. Very small detail, but it makes a pretty big impact.
YES! Especially since just about every social media has removed or never included dislikes at this point.
Though some of the larger Lemmy instances have disabled downvoting.
I’m doing my part
Relatively tech literate user base
Not for long if the migration continues
Feels more intimate. It's actually kind of all the things I liked about reddit: small community, sort by new. I'm kind of addicted already 😬 it's a plus that we have a chance to see what it becomes. That's the best part imo. I been here only a few hrs, but I feel apart of something. Reddit is a bit disconnected sometimes, especially on larger subs.
Alot of reddit posts ended up being just really dumb nothing posts, but here it seems like the more engaged type crowd for now.
I like the small community feel, as well. What's nice about that is that Lemmy doesn't have to get big to be what it needs to be (but bigger is still nice).
That you're not walking on eggshells.
My username/account was deleted when I (deservedly) berated a racist-sexist-homophobic guy. My comments were removed but his hateful posts remained.
So hopefully we won't get biased and power-tripping admins and mods here.
We will. But it's gonna be contained to instances and communities there and opening a new community on another instance is easy af
I like the DIY feeling of Lemmy, feels like old Reddit when I was a teenager. I also weirdly like the fact that because I want Lemmy to succeed and grow, I have an incentive to post and comment and upvote and actually engage
Much less cluttered UI. Very friendly communities.
The decentralized and community-driven model that essentially guarantees Lemmy being free from big corporations creating the ad-centric hellscape of centralized social media. That, and the UI is much clearer and feels lighter, even compared to Old Reddit.
Does it, though? An instance could theoretically become so big it overshadows all others, then defederate from everyone.
This^. And not just the ads, but the decentralized nature should also protect the community at large. Where as if Nintendo doesn't like something on r/Nintendo they may have sufficient pull to force a change. With communities being decentralized it means that corporations have a lessened ability to throw their weight around.
This was a big thing for me too. And I agree about the UI, it feels close to reddit I guess but I've not had any issues finding my way around and joining a bunch of communities that interest me. I've also commented/posted more than I ever did on reddit already!
Unicode characters in display names.
Immediate comments without needing to refresh. Things are just immediately showing up, which makes it feel so alive
sports gamethreads would be very fun on here
i love being able to see individual upvote and downvote counts. the nuance is actually very important
Ooooh we can edit titles?
It feels way more community focused. There's a distinct lack of corporate influence, which is great.
Way fewer bots. I don't think I realized how bad reddit was.
Man I'm not looking forward to when the bots find Lemmy.
Yes! I second this.
so far at least there are no constant annoying automod filters like 'this title needs to be 250 characters not including spaces, have a [i'm a dumbass] flair, etc etc'
it does nothing to improve the quality of anything and makes the whole UX more annoying. on r/gonewildaudio there's like a paragraph of flairs
Better UI
When you sort by "New" it kinda refreshes in realtime.
This also happens in the comments which is cool! Tho I can foresee it becoming rather annoying in high activity places.
I was literally trying to figure out how to disable that.
Feels more like old school forums instead of conglomorated shitpost: meme response, ironic response, [deleted] spam response bot response
Clean and faster UI. old.reddit is good enough, but outdated.
You are not called an orc if you disagree with whatever The Washing Post or other USA state media says.
The smaller community.
I remember when the top post on Reddit had 10.000 upvotes... Today you can't interact anymore, just "consume".
This is a great point! Reddit today feels like forum Instagram
Not overloaded with porn. Reddit is full of bots and porn accs. Not the greatest issue ofc
Why that was the best part for me 😂. Will get on it to make Lemmy feel more like home 🏃.
No offense, and I've seen several people requesting porn, but to me that kind of lowers the level or seriousness of a community. I'm OK if a platforms allows NSFW content, but there's a difference between actively browsing for porn and getting spam to your account. Porn is a very distracting stuff with addiction potential.
To me the best thing about forums, reddit, lemmy, etc. is the aggregation of general human knowledge, and it's better if you don't have to swim over a load of attention-grabbing content for it.
My guy the Reddit admins actively try to lie about and gaslight the community, even after evidence is publically stacked against them, Reddit is far from "alright".
"banned because of spam" go brrr
Reddit.com is more than just the people running it.
It's not gaslighting, just regular old lying.
The only reason I reluctantly keep my account is because of a few niche communities I lurk and sometimes comment in. And I'll add that Reddit is usable thanks to the old interface + uBlock Origin and third-party apps on mobile (and we all know what's happening next); I'd call it "alright" just as a euphemism for "not (yet) as bad as Facebook or Instagram".
You're in for a disappointment
The friendly community
I'm happy I won't have to deal with seeing subreddits named _____porn, like DesignPorn. So immature and cringe
There are a ton of them, actually. There's like 10 on lemmy.ml if you search "porn" on https://browse.feddit.de/
The app emoji is cool. I think on Jerboa app, this mouse is so sweet
It's a Jerboa, which is an actual animal!
Oh, wow, didn't know that, thanks Btw super sweet animal!
Currently it feels like a reverse Golgafrincham situation. We got rid of the useless third by jumping ship. Let's convince them we got swallowed by an enormous mutant Star-Goat 🤩 https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrincham
When I click a post it actually opens a new page for the post instead of some weird window overlaying the feed. Things are simplified and easier to use and understand. I don't feel like I'm constantly trying to work around the platform.
More engagement. I think the vast majority of Reddit was lurkers. This feels more like a community.
I was concerned of the amount of users not being enough to generate content, but so far I have been proven wrong. And the quality of the content is much better. At least for now.
No "total karma" for accounts.
Which by extension removes the stupid one liner contest that every reddit post devolves into.
How dare you say that! My mother was a saint
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ikr, those people are actual zombies.</j>
i kinda like the one liner contests. seeing my favorite niche (or not so niche) subreddits pop up in unrelated places is one of the main appeals of reddit to me.This. It makes it much more unlikely to see tons of reposts, and as such it will be easier to see new interesting stuff.