It has support for 3rd party apps.
Here on principle for the 3rd party apps.
I realize the hardware and software cost money for a site. I’m ok with paying either by a friendly use of ads, or a decent subscription.
I was on the verge of starting to pay for Reddit to stop the ads when I used the website. I happily paid for my 3rd party app. But that was right when Reddit nerfed the subscriptions and went to their current version. And then stopped the API.
I happily paid for the Lemmy 3rd party app. I need to look into donating for the server.
Lemmy doesn’t have u/spez, so it’s already infinitely better
It also has you too which is cool.
It actually does (don’t know which instance), but I doubt it’s the same person.
At least not as an expensive leech at the head of the whole thing. He probably earns more on his own as what every single instance collects in donations.
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No fucking ADS
Simple, it’s open source and distributed, and that’s what matters.
Agreed. :)
A social network/online community can either be significantly profitable or healthy for its users. Pick one
I find the moderation is better here. My posts aren’t being removed because they didn’t match some forced title formatting or some other arbitrary reason.
People also aren’t just redirecting people to decade old posts and megathreads which is nice.
Think about what AskReddit is like with the same kind of posts over and over again because they decided to limit posters to the title text.
If communities end up with hundreds of thousands or millions of users, you will start to see more rules here too.
I’m not saying any specific rule choices are good or bad. But they become increasingly necessary when the user count crosses a threshold.
That’s part of the reason I am hoping Lemmy doesn’t become the new Reddit with a total migration of users. I like the smaller userbase as selfish as that is. I feel like at least with the federated nature of Lemmy we would see less power mods that run a majority of communities preventing crosspromotion with other communities/instances and limiting feedback.
I get why rules need to be added as a community grows but with Reddit this seems to mean a lot of micromanagement over things that wouldn’t effect enjoyment of subreddit members and adding hurdles for new or infrequent users
Here’s a hypothetical example that kind of goes along with my previous comment:
I want to post in a Elder Scrolls game modding subreddit asking about quality of life mods for games before Skyrim. It gets removed because the subreddit requires you to tag a specific game using a format like [Oblivion] or [Morrowind] for easier searching and sorting. The issue is I am not just talking about one game and tagging every TES game since Arena would eat up a lot of title space.
In the grand scheme of things it makes sense but it’s annoying to deal with especially if the subreddit doesn’t clearly prompt users on why their post was removed and people who are just popping by to ask a quick question might be discouraged.
I am hoping we don’t see things like that become the norm on Lemmy.
I think a lot of the annoyance that comes from rules similar to your example is the fact it is a system bolted on to whatever is available in Reddit. And the UI/UX is almost always TERRIBLE.
If it was easier to make clean and functional post/comment flows this would be less of a burden.
Your points still stand. But I do think a large proportion of the friction from many rules comes from Reddits architecture. And frankly, the fact that they support apps. If it had stayed just the website, we would have probally seen more movement on improving these flows. But it’s deemed too complicated to support in two formats. Also, Reddit probally just does not give a shit.
I would hope Lemmy could be a place where it’s easy to deploy systems for proper labeling and tagging in niche communities that gain a lot from better taxonomies and other systems.
Yeah most of my communities I don’t even have much in terms of rules/haven’t spelled things out. It’s typically common sense.
As you get bigger… More order is needed to maintain common sense
This again?
Didn’t you see, it wasn’t posted for a few days, it was time for it to come around again.
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3rd party apps.
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Fewer Nazis.
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Small enough to not have ridiculous rules that make it so only the mods and friends of mods can actually post something without it automatically being removed by an automod bot.
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Fewer dickhead mods.
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Either fewer dickheads in general, or at least fewer of them making multiple accounts so that blocking a dickhead actually works.
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Open source, not owned by a megacorp.
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So first, these things are why Lemmy is better for me. Obviously, to each their own.
- Lemmy supports different apps, like Reddit used to.
- I’ve experienced less spam on Lemmy.
- Lemmy is full of Linux nerds, like me.
- Lemmy has fewer Nazis in my experience. I do understand that there are instances full of Nazis, but I don’t see their posts.
- Lemmy is open source. I like open source.
I can see real upvotes and downvotes.
Lemmy is so much more performant than reddit… It is crazy! Try going to reddit’s deskop site and then go to a Lemmy site…
Also, reddit is now blocking VPN users, unless you are logged in…
And finally, if I use reddit, I am contributing to a rich guy buying his nth car/house/yacht… On Lemmy, I am not enriching the wallets of the already rich.
Well said! I also find that the community here is less toxic and more intelligent, but maybe that’s just my biased perception
in a nutshell, it’s made for people, not for money
Accessibility is a big plus. Reddit is opposed to 3rd party apps while their official app is appallingly stuttery and feature-incomplete.
Yes, no ads + third party apps and a better political atmosphere is a win for me
Shark fucking is not a political stance.
Id say its highly political considering the government actively tries to stop me smh
There are dozens of us! Dozens!