I am a reddit refugee. Keep seeing that this is supposed to be somehow better than Reddit. As far as I can tell, it follows a similar format, less restrictive on posts being removed I suppose. But It looks like people still get down vote brigaded on some communities. So I’m curious, how it’s better?
It’s not reddit, that’s good enough
LEMMY HAS THE CRUMBGRABBER. THAT IS WHY REDDIT HAS NO CHANCE.
All hail the CRUMBGRABBER!
Overall, it isn’t yet. Reddit has more developed niche subs, more in-depth posts and comments, and enough content even if you filter out the low effort stuff. Where Lemmy is better is that it is decentralized and not run like a corporate dictatorship with zero respect for its users the way Reddit is.
No spez?
In terms of how it’s structured, it has the potential to be better, but also the potential to be not much better. in terms of the community and getting downvoted for petty reasons - it’s the same as Reddit. Welcome to Lemmy!
When you think about it, every sarcastic comment you make on Reddit now makes Google better. Reddit is too corporate, but who wouldn’t want to spread seriously good information on Reddit, to be picked up by the google machine? People need to know about the benefits of eating a little piece of rock a day.
Why did you, personally, leave Reddit?
You can’t really get kicked off.
I am a new Lemmy user (and new to this fediverse, although I have more fediverse experience from other decentralized platforms such as Matrix). I’ve been liking Lemmy, for the pupose it’s thought for, a thread-focused platform (while Mastodon, for example, is post-focused, microblogging). For starters, no advertisements nor sponsorship nor tracking (yet my adblock is active everytime anyways). Possibility of integrating multiple kinds of platforms through ActivityPub (Mastodon, Pleroma, etc). Open and accessible API. Definitely, not only Lemmy is way better than Reddit, but the fediverse is way better than any mainstream social network.
Welcome!
We control it. It’s libre software.
It’s more different than better, and by different I mean better
You can run your own instance and votes don’t really matter.
Welcome to Lemmy, where the content is sparse and the votes don’t matter!
I’m trying to think of a funny way for Ryan to misunderstand Lemmy, but nothing comes to mind.
Winks?
I swapped because I refused to use their garbage fire of an app and they shut down my beautiful RIF. Unforgivable.
What app do you use for Lemmy?
I used Boost on reddit, and I use Boost on lemmy. I’m not a huge fan of it not being FOSS, but every other app was always missing something
I’m sure they have caught up now, but I already paid for it and it does everything I need
I’ve never used Boost. What sorts of things does it have that FOSS apps are lacking?
I wouldn’t be able to tell you at this point friend. I can’t remember what I wasn’t liking about the other apps in the first place, and I have no idea the progress they have made. I’d be willing to bet at least a few are on par now
Many options are available like voyager, avelon, melm to name a few for ios. Lemmy’s app scene is strong
I use Voyager and it’s fantastic.
As a former RIF user, I use Jerboa.
Thunder is really good and always improving!
I’d recommend Eternity for Lemmy, same developer as Infinity for Reddit, and FOSS. I too tried a bunch of Lemmy apps and I settled on Eternity because it’s pretty much a complete app. I don’t miss any features.
Went from rif to connect for Lemmy and i’m happy with it
Pour one out for Apollo. 🍺
Ads look better in the official ad delivery app - download the app
“Oh, you already have a third party app that you love? Too bad, we’re killing it.”
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We need someone to write a fediverse manifesto that explains it for the uninitiated like the GNU Manifesto did for free software.
This video does an ok job of it.
