Curious for people reasons for using Lemmy instead of Reddit.
I told someone, that I hacked their IP and it is “127.0.0.1”, as a joke.
I was permabanned for doxxing…
Wait I thought that was my IP address! How did you find it?!
I was banned for commenting on r/mademesmile. There was a video of a guy nursing a baby doll (a literal toy) while his little daughter was doing something else, i don’t remember. I commented “can we call the cps on her?” That was it. I was banned for commenting to call the cps on a TOY.
I don’t. I use Lemmy and Reddit alongside eachother
I’ve started using Lemmy, but I’m still mainly on Reddit. I like the open source, open platform, and federated aspects of Lemmy. There’s also the greenfield aspect, because most of the best community names are unclaimed. At the same time, Reddit has a lot of niche interest subreddits that I’ve joined over the past 11 years of me being on there, including a medium sized subreddit that I moderate. I’m not giving that up.
Reddit is too hostile to its users AND moderators. You join but can’t post anywhere because low karma… And nobody tells you that.
As for mods we had to deal with abuse every day (took admins years to introduce the mute feature) and we received news about site wide rules the same time you did. Then were left to enforce them despite not understanding them, as their rules are really loosely defined. But if you don’t enforce them, you could get your account or subreddit banned.
So yeah miss me with that shit. I’m not an employee of reddit, I’m a volunteer. It shouldn’t have to be a job.
I left some time last year after being suspended and never went back. Best decision I made - you don’t notice how negative that place is until you leave.
Also too many fascists on there that reddit still doesn’t ban after several blackouts and open letters. Guess there must be fash in the admin team.
I hear ya, former mod here too, and its the most stressful guessing game after reddit gives you a warning to try to not get your subreddit banned… you even end up having to censor posts with richard spencer getting punched.
Meanwhile every 3rd comment on the reddit mains is “nuke china!”, or “unpopular opinion here, I don’t want black ppl in my neighborhood” (10k upvotes and 50 flairs.)
Leans more left-wing. More welcoming community. Similar layout.
As someone who has been there back in Usenet’s heyday, I think the Internet works better when it uses decentralized and non-commercial servers. This allows people to post content which is beneficial to readers, instead of content which benefits corporate interests over what helps the small guy.
By using pure open source technology, the board belongs to the community, which means everyone wins, not just whatever corporation “owns” a Lemmy instance.
I wrote a whole article on the subject. :)
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I agree with you, but can we think for a moment how SLOW feels Reddit on pc? It’s a serius pain traying to do ANYTHING. Even in the “old” version. But then you have some cool frontends that go Brrr
Just for the hell of it, here’s a comparison of lemmy vs reddit in speed.
It’s open source, it’s decentralized, and for lemmy.ml specifically, there are a lot of leftists here,
Because I’m tired of Reddit. Also, with my own Lemmy instance I want to be a part of building a proper Reddit alternative.
bc of leftists
- Big corporate web 2.0 walled gardens are trash
- I like the devs’ politics
- People here give me their precious upvotes 😼
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Because reddit sucks and lemmy doesn’t.
Reddit has been in a slow and steady downward spiral for years now. Off the top of my head: the terrible new UI redesign, Aimee Challenor, rampant censorship, nepotism in general. I mean, heck, there were so many controversies on reddit over the years, Wikipedia has to sort them in chronological order!
Lemmy doesn’t seem to have those problems. And even if it did, one can always spin up their own instance due to its federated nature.
reddit trying to force their app down my throat.
I’m using both. Trying Lemmy out of curiosity and because FOSS. Seems alright, some weird China apologism here though even from admins. It’s weird as fuck and definitely a putoff
