Lack of ads and ideological sympathies for FOSS is a huge part of why I came here but I stayed because the smaller size of lemmy allows for a feeling of community that reddit cannot achieve. I see and interact with users I recognize and know a decent deal of information about.
Conversation can happen in the comments on lemmy.
No ads, and generally more left-leaning.
Reddit’s culture is extremely toxic. Like, I actually left Reddit before Lemmy existed for that reason.
It can be toxic here too. I had my misadventure with a bunch of “experts” absolutely sure that the future is communism and “stupid you brainwashed fool” if you don’t get it.
Oh I remember that, lol. It was a bunch of people giving long, well thought out explanations of their position to you, and you responding by ignoring them and insulting them.
Communism is the logical progression of society. It isn’t a certainty, but the alternative in the long-run is disaster and barbarism.
Haha we’ll fucking do it again
My instance doesn’t sell what I write to train AI.
Of course, the AI sumbitches probably scrape Lemmy for content too like they scrape everything for content. But at least Lemmy doesn’t give them my content on a platter, nicely packaged up and ready to exploit and monetize. They have to do the scraping.
Eh, if they run their own ActivityPub server they can probably extract everything in a neat format.
Yeah but they have to set it up. It’s not sold to them ready to exploit - and crucially, Spez doesn’t get to make any money off my back.
lemmy doesn’t let the idf to moderate their communities and you can say things that run contrary to mainstream narratives.
Most of all: it’s run non-for-profit. There are no ads, donations are optional (I have the means to chip in a bit each year) and its not VC funded and therefore has no intrinsic pressure to enshittify like reddit repeatedly did. Lemmy does not exploit me.
I’ve been able to make (very minor) improvements to the codebase.
I could download and host an instance if I thought there was one my hobbies needed.
I can move around pretty easily without missing much if admins are moderating in a way I disagree with, or kowtow to corporate interests or garbage national laws. And some of the reddit admins (not merely subreddit mods) were abusive.
Community sizes are smaller but the larger ones are large enough to sustain conversations
lemmy is much smaller so far and I like the communities. I also don’t feel like i’m being psyop’d by a bunch of bots in the larger communities like on reddit.
It’s small enough that you can know people on your instance. And posts get engagement for way longer.
Also separate up and down vote numbers is nice.
Well, I have not been banned from Lemmy for my anti-Nazi opinions.
I get to see answer this question every month.
I don’t yet– found my way here after getting banned.
I love chatting with people that are generally more reasonable and kind. Random viciousness seems absent here in my experience.
I don’t yet, but it’s getting closer.
One reason is on me. I should choose a different instance because mine is the other side of the world from me! Different vibe. I probably haven’t moved because I enjoy experiencing local views which oppose and align with my own. Conversely, In the community context, I follow “fuck_ai” and some of the pro-AI communities because it’s important to me to see both sides of this revolution develop.
The second is that quite a few of the Reddit communities have limited Lemmy presence with significant momentum. That will hopefully change with time and other platforms willing.
On the flip side, I’ve found that there are many communities which have momentum which I joined on Lemmy for fun that I haven’t investigated as to whether they exist in Reddit. My interests are eclectic and transient sometimes. Perhaps my sense of wonder will wilt one day (that alliteration sounded better in my head; damn!).
