It can literally be anything, as long it relates to Lemmy.

  • Nyaa@lemmy.ml
    15·
    3 years ago

    I love having no karma system, and that the admins are actually real life humans with a soul instead of a soulless being only meant for giving out PR statements.

    I like that the admins actually use the website that they admin, so they can also see issues on the user perspective. Plus it’s nice to just know a bit about them.

    I like that it’s currently a bit small, so I can see some of the same users over and over again. It’s not random user number 4 million, it’s “hey, that’s thann, I’ve seen them around on a lot of posts”. etc

  • joojmachine@lemmy.ml
    13·
    3 years ago

    • It doesn’t run like crap like Reddit’s redesign while still looking modern and good, unlike Old Reddit;

    • Good dark theme;

    • FOSS and federated;

    • Shuts down fascists and trolls hard and quickly enough for me (the new moderation system seems to be really good);

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
      5·
      3 years ago

      Aside from being incredibly bloated, I find Reddit’s redesign is completely unreadalbe as well. I don’t know if it’s just me, but I just find it impossible to read threads with it.

      • joojmachine@lemmy.ml
        0·
        3 years ago

        For me it’s quite the opposite, I like the design itself of the redesign quite good (probably because I started using Reddit with it already as the default), but it runs like hot garbage.

  • morrowind@lemmy.ml
    13·
    3 years ago
    • No spam, resposters, low quality content, tryhards trying to get karma
    • No cringe normies
    • No videos (seriously, especially if you go to r/all, it’s all videos. and the video player still sucks). If I wanted videos, I would go to youtube or tiktok goes the clock
    • Little to no emojis (call me what you want, I just find them annoying)
    • UI is not bloated like new reddit, or horrific like old reddit
    • The inline expandable images and previews are nice
    • No worrying about tracking
    • Everything just feels simpler and more homely

    Should I break this into multiple comments?

  • sexy_peach@feddit.de
    12·
    3 years ago

    If the admins ever get power hungry or implement tracking and advertising it’s easy to switch servers and still have a well populated reddit experience.

  • Prince@lemmy.mlOP
    11·
    3 years ago

    For me it’s the fact that it has no karma system, so karma farmers or people who get big ego trips over having fake internet points have no home here, and with that comes the fact that there is no karma threshold stopping someone from posting in a community.

    • Star Wars Enjoyer @lemmygrad.ml
      6·
      3 years ago

      One of the worst parts of Reddit is the hundreds of reposts you’d see over and over and over and over, that were only reposted because someone saw that it got a lot of upvotes previously. Or the posts that were only posted because the OP wants some sensationalism upvotes.

      Then you’ve also got subs that require a certain karma threshold to post, users to bully other users for having low karma, etc. Just a pain in the ass all around, that gets addictive because “imaginary number go up, that mean people like me”.

      The karma system’s probably, at least in my opinion, one of the biggest things that ruined Reddit.

    • mekhos@lemmy.mlM
      5·
      3 years ago

      Yea this is a good one, its nice to post something funny/informative/helpful and see people appreciated it but it exists just for that post, not some accumulation of status that gets dragged around for everyone to see.

  • mekhos@lemmy.mlM
    10·
    3 years ago

    No adverts, they make me feel really annoyed for some reason (I’m normally quite calm/unreactive)

  • space_of_eights@lemmy.ml
    8·
    3 years ago

    My answer is nostalgia. I yearn back to the idea of social media before karma was a business model and information was supposed to be free. I used to love Reddit as a collective place to find information that does or does not interest me. Lemmy is a worthy potential successor.

  • Amicese@lemmy.ml
    6·
    3 years ago

    Lemmy uses proper markdown for posts (and comments); they even support HTML tags!

    <p style=“color: red;”>This sentence is colored red!</p>

    <textarea>Checkout this text area!</textarea>

    <textarea style=“padding: 1em; color: blue;”>A padded blue textarea!</textarea>\

    <input></input>