Nicer, more intelligent community.
Also I can comment on a thread even an entire day late and it’ll still get seen and upvoted.
i dont really care about intelligence,as that is a very vague thing to care about, even definition may vary, but the second point is important to me
Lack of spez
Less assholes for the most part.
No bots too
The fact that it’s not run by reddit and it has working 3rd party apps. And that’s pretty much it TBH.
It isn’t reddit.
i still scroll through both but i engage with way more posts on Lemmy now almost everyday
so i actually find the content on Lemmy more interesting which is slightly unexpected. i thought it would end up the same
the reason you interact more here could be because people here are more nice and welcoming because it’s definitely the reason I love to interact here :D
I find it super chill and for all the talk I see of people being toxic I never see it.
The mods are actual humans, not bots with no life who scroll reddit all day. It’s free, doesn’t track my data and can be used without an app on mobile…
I’m sure someone is scraping the data…
I recognise usernames, so it feels like conversations between people are happening rather than just throwing stuff out there for it to be ignored.
Other thing is there are small communities with 1-2 mods so you know them and they aren’t usually “the superuser” that mods 10 different communities.
I don’t say there are none of them, just that it is usually small and you recognize the mod that just steer his small community.
When I joined reddit, it was at least a year—probably 3 years—before I was banned from a subreddit—r/AskReddit. I’ve been here little more than a year and I’ve not only been banned from a notable community here, but when I asked to be unbanned—once, then letting perhaps a few weeks pass, then twice—I got no reply.
(and I’m not going to ask a 3rd time, but will simply create a [community-I-was-banned-from]2.)
Was it hexbear/.ml?
What post/comment did you get banned for?
some I made in this post: “What is a woman?” https://lemmy.world/post/18941154
and a few of my comments there remain.
I was being a bit sarcastic about political correctness and transcritical—which on most of reddit and Lemmy seems to be transphobic.
I wouldn’t regard this parodist as a woman.
https://youtu.be/9olCMRbuR5I?t=5772 (long video, but this link is cued)
Lemmy is highly sensitive about transgender topics. We have a very high percentage of trans people, and thus mods tend to be quite zealous when protecting this space from transphobia. They may sometimes be overzealous, but that’s not the worst thing in the world.
I don’t think a permaban was necessary based on your comments. But I also don’t think you would be happy about making other Lemmings uncomfortable or driving them away from the platform because they feel unwelcome. Is it more important that we all perfectly agree on various semantic definitions, or that people feel welcome and able to connect and communicate with others on Lemmy?
I’m not criticizing you or anything like that because I don’t think you were trying to hurt anyone and I think the ban was excessive. But I’m just trying to help you see the situation from the other side and maybe approach the topic with a little more delicacy in the future.
Subreddits could often be narrowly focused to a severe degree.
r/whatisthisthing would routinely remove comment chains that were tangent to the topic of identifying the thing posted. Say someone posted a picture of a Betamax tape and said “What is this thing?” Someone identifies it as a Betamax tape, links to the WIkipedia page, mentions that it was Sony’s competitor to VHS, etc. Que a tangent where someone says “VHS won the format war and became basically the only standard available, so for a long time we didn’t call the format by its name; commercials for movies would say “now available to own on video” and we called the machine a “VCR.” And someone else says 'There was actually an early and unsuccessful format called VCR, it didn’t do well and is pretty rare though.” And all these comments get removed and the commenters get 7 day bans.
I’ve yet to see that brand of “the kind of anal retentive you only get from welding someone’s ass crack shut from spine to scrotal seam” here.
Yeah, that really bugs me when Iook at r/askreddit. The mods only seem to allow seem to allow generic personal questions or questions about sex.
Edit: it looks like three moderation is better now! Although it’s still mostly about sex.
Yeah the old “what’s the sexiest sex you’ve ever sexed” channel.
Fewer of the obsessive stickler mods that delete posts and bans users and kills the community by reposting content to gain internet points.
Posts not being taken down without an explanation. The pics place has more people taking pictures themselves.
honestly, I always feel so much more part of the conversation here. on Reddit, unless you time it just right and browse young posts, chances are your comment will never be seen. on here you’ll be one of 50 top level comments at most. and that’s only the biggest threads. it would be nice to see more activity on more threads, but often when i comment on something with no comments it’s enough to start the conversation.
almost none of my comments here get ignored, and the conversations that come out of them feel better. unless it’s about Linux. you people are insane and unapproachable when it comes to operating systems. not because you’re wrong, you’re just… a lot.
Honestly, be on the guard for big lemmy milestones and make a post about it in !fediverse@lemmy.world at the right time, and you can easy end up in the top ten lemmy posts of all time.
Not owned by corpos
Feels smaller and more cozy to me.
Thats the biggest issue I DON’T like about Lemmy. I want everyone in the world on the fediverse.
I like a large userbase myself, would prefer it to be larger than it is, but if everyone showed up tomorrow, it’d collapse. We’d see scaling problems that hadn’t been anticipated, anti-spam/anti-abuse systems wouldn’t have had time to adapt, etc.
Takes time with problems gradually appearing and becoming more serious and solutions showing up to deal with them.
Yeah we’ve have 1 Influx and the result was we retained a pretty decent userbase. I think the next influx will be even better for lemmy.
Same
